Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages by John Van Engen

Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages

John Van Engen

433 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
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The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forge...

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