Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620

Bert Roest teaches Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. His most recent publications include Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform (Brill, 2013), and Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission c. 1220-1650(Brill, 2015).Johanneke Uphoff is currently a doctoral student at the University of Groningen within the project group Cities of Readers: Religious Literacies in the Long Fifteenth Century. Her research investigates the participation of lay people in the transmission of religious knowledge.

"[This book] makes a very useful contribution to scholarship of the Church at a crucial time of reform, initially Observant and later Protestant. It marshals textual, historical, and art historical evidence to this end... The book highlights the potential of this area for further study, especially using art historical and architectural evidence to investigate the Observance."- Yvonne McDermott, in: Renaissance Quarterly 70.2 (2017)."[The volume] thus succeeds in one of its primary goals, highlighting the greater need (and possibility) for a deeper understanding of this period of religious identity formation, both for its own sake and with regard to discussion of later issues of religious reform and challenge." - Stefan Visnjevac, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68.4 (2017)."This volume, the thirteenth in the Brill Medieval Franciscans Series, represents one of the outcomes of a large interdisciplinary research project entitled Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation c. 1420–c.1620 based at Radboud University, Nijmegen. It showcases the work of established and emerging scholars, presents much new material, and opens up several exciting lines of further research. [...] This is a very fascinating volume."Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 358–361

• ContentsList of Illustrations viiNotes on Contributors viii1 Introduction 1Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff2 The Observance’s Women: New Models of Sanctity and ReligiousDiscipline for the Female Dominican Observant Movement during theFifteenth Century 13Sylvie Duval3 Creating a Colettine Identity in an Observant and Post-Observant World:Narratives of the Colettine Reforms after 1447 32Anna Campbell4 Instruction and Construction: Sermons and the Formation of a ClarissanIdentity in Nuremberg 48Johanneke Uphoff5 Canonical Change and the Orders of ‘Franciscan’ Tertiaries 69Alison More6 Transcending the Order: The Pursuit of Observance and ReligiousIdentity Formation in the Low Countries, c. 1450–1500 86Anna Dlabačova7 Selections in a World of Multiple Options: The Witness of ThomasSwalwell, osb 110Anne T. Thayer8 ‘The Prayer Booklet of Eternal Wisdom’ (Der ewigen wiszheitBetbüchlin, 1518): Catechistic Shaping of Religious Lay Identity 126Martina Wehrli-Johns9 The Vineyard of Saint Francis 152Koen Goudriaan10 The Name of God, the Name of Saints, the Name of the Order:Reflections on the ‘Franciscan’ Identity during the ObservantPeriod 172Ludovic Viallet11 The American Inquisition and the Arabic Language: A Short Noteabout the Invention of the Moriscos in the Sixteenth Century 191Alessandro Vanoli12 Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care inLate Medieval Milan 201Fabrizio Conti13 Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in BernardinoOchino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545) 214Michele Camaioni14 How to Write a Conversionary Sermon: Rhetorical Influences andReligious Identity 235Emily MichelsonIndex of Names 253Index of Places and Subjects 256List of Illustrations