The Early Reception of the Devotio Moderna among the Crutched Friars
In this contribution several manuscripts are analyzed that transmit texts written by Geert Grote (1340–1384), the founding father of the Devotio Moderna movement. The selected witnesses have Crutched Friars’ convents as their provenance. The analysis results in the conclusion that two individual Fri...
| Published in: | Church history and religious culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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Church history and religious culture
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Crutched Friars
Reception of the Modern Devotion
Geert Grote
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| Summary: | In this contribution several manuscripts are analyzed that transmit texts written by Geert Grote (1340–1384), the founding father of the Devotio Moderna movement. The selected witnesses have Crutched Friars’ convents as their provenance. The analysis results in the conclusion that two individual Friars played a decisive role in the early and qualitatively outstanding reception of Grote’s literary output among the Crutched Friars: First, Conrad Scheych from Grünberg (†1466), librarian of the convent in Cologne and in 1418–1419 a student of the Brethren in Deventer, and secondly Helmicus Amoris from Zutphen (†1441), from 1415 onwards prior-general of the Order and a maternal half-brother of Gerard Zerbolt from Zutphen (1367–1398), the talented but untimely deceased first generation inhabitant of the mother house of the Brethren of the Common Life in Deventer. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-13930403 |