Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents
Author:   Michael A. Vargas
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   42
ISBN:  

9789004203150


Pages:   356
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Winner of the 2013 La corónica 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.

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Author:   Michael A. Vargas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   42
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9789004203150


ISBN 10:   900420315
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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AWARDS Taming a Brood of Vipers is winner of the La Coronica Book Award 2013. REVIEWS ein glanzend geschriebenes, ungemein anregendes Buch - Ralf Lutzelschwab, in: Sehepunkte 12/9 (2012)


AWARDS Taming a Brood of Vipers is winner of the La Coronica Book Award 2013. REVIEWS ein glanzend geschriebenes, ungemein anregendes Buch , Ralf Lutzelschwab in Sehepunkte Ausgabe 12 (2012), Nr. 9, http://www.sehepunkte.de/2012/09/21502.html


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Michael A. Vargas, Ph.D. (Fordham University, 2006) is Assistant Professor of History at The State University of New York at New Paltz.

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