Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents /
Vargas, Michael A.
Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents / by Michael A. Vargas. - Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : maps - The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 42 1569-1934 ; . - Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 42. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Success and successors -- The contentious birth of a new province -- Growth, crisis and recovery -- Bad-boy friars and complicit leaders -- Friar-youths and troublesome others -- Office and official -- Challenged vows -- In defense of corporate honor.
Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the costly successes and institutional weaknesses that contributed to the distressing realities of Dominican conventual life in the troubled fourteenth century. Taming a Brood of Vipers finds Dominican friars engaged in activities very much at odds with our sense of the way it should have been, but removing.
9789004203167 (electronic bk.) 9004203168 (electronic bk.)
015758754 Uk
Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón --History.
Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón.
Fourteenth century.
Quatorzième siècle.
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
Fourteenth century.
Aragon (Spain)--Church history.
Aragon (Espagne)--Histoire religieuse.
Spain--Aragon.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
BX3544.A7 / V37 2011eb
271/.20465509023
Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents / by Michael A. Vargas. - Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : maps - The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 42 1569-1934 ; . - Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 42. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Success and successors -- The contentious birth of a new province -- Growth, crisis and recovery -- Bad-boy friars and complicit leaders -- Friar-youths and troublesome others -- Office and official -- Challenged vows -- In defense of corporate honor.
Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the costly successes and institutional weaknesses that contributed to the distressing realities of Dominican conventual life in the troubled fourteenth century. Taming a Brood of Vipers finds Dominican friars engaged in activities very much at odds with our sense of the way it should have been, but removing.
9789004203167 (electronic bk.) 9004203168 (electronic bk.)
015758754 Uk
Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón --History.
Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón.
Fourteenth century.
Quatorzième siècle.
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
Fourteenth century.
Aragon (Spain)--Church history.
Aragon (Espagne)--Histoire religieuse.
Spain--Aragon.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
BX3544.A7 / V37 2011eb
271/.20465509023