Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents
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Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents
（The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 42）
Brill, 2011
- : hbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-342) and index
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Winner of the 2013 La coronica International Book Award
Audacious transgressors, rebellious sowers of discord, a brood of vipers - so leaders of the Order of Preachers described their own men. This lively study of costly corporate successes and failed reforms restores to the late medieval friars their complex humanity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ... vii
List of Abbreviations ... ix
Maps ... xi
Introduction ... 1
Part One: Exigencies
Chapter One Success and Successors ... 37
Chapter Two The Contentious Birth of a New Province ... 73
Chapter Three Growth, Crisis and Recovery ... 99
Chapter Four Bad-Boy Friars and Complicit Leaders ... 125
Part Two: Everyday Experience in Dominican Convents
Chapter Five Friar-Youths and Troublesome Others ... 163
Chapter Six Office and Official ... 207
Chapter Seven Challenged Vows ... 249
Chapter Eight In Defense of Corporate Honor... 279
Epilogue ... 317
Bibliography ... 327
Manuscripts ... 327
Printed Sources... 327
Secondary Works ... 329
Index ... 343
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