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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Geschichte 900-1500. --- Metaphysik. --- PHILOSOPHY / General.

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This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The book offers a rich variety of perspectives, including the role of exhortatory literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience, the implementation of reform, the importance of architectural features, the relative merits of the eremitical (religious recluse), and the monastic form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the 13th and 15th centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life."

Monastic and religious life --- Monasticism and religious orders --- 271 "04/14" --- 271.3-4 --- Church history --- History --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Middeleeuwen --- Franciscanen. Minderbroeders: stichter; stichting; regels; statuten --- Ordensregel --- Gehorsam --- Middle Ages. --- Geschichte 900-1500. --- 600-1500. --- Ordensregel. --- Gehorsam. --- 271.3-4 Franciscanen. Minderbroeders: stichter; stichting; regels; statuten