In this volume, Bert Roest discusses many issues pertaining to the organization of learning in the Franciscan order, and the ways in which this order engaged in pastoral and missionary activities in c
In "Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform," Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth c
This comprehensive history of Franciscan education shows the dynamic development of the Franciscan school network between the early thirteenth and the late fifteenth century. The book pays special att
Breaking through conventional periodization of history, historians examine the dynamics of religious renewal and the pastoral efficacy of religious orders from the early 15th to the early 17th centuri
The Observant reform of the religious orders remains one of the most important yet understudied religious movements of the later Middle Ages. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic in
An October 2000 international workshop in Groningen was called to take stock of the humanist aspects of medieval intellectual life and thought and of its appropriation by modern history and literature
