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The book analyses the history of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting the elements of connection and comparison with the social contexts, then describing the origin and the most ancient events of the female branch of the congregation, and the memory of the meeting between the "founder" of the Jesuats and the "foundress" of the Gesuate. The iconographic memory of the initiator of the congregation, Giovani Colombini, the collection of the lauds of the Jesuat Bianco da Siena, and the fortune of the 15th-century Life of Giovanni Colombini, written by Feo Belcari, are also investigated. Then the research reconstructs the constellation of groups, religious experiments and bearers of ideas and devotions that were linked to the Jesuats and, in particular, to the convents of Milan, Siena, Lucca, Venice and Rome and the sanctuaries managed by the congregation. The congregational sociability is analysed along its lines: the practice of work as pharmacists and the cultivation of spiritual friendships with prominent people such as the Countess of Guastalla, Lodovica Torelli. Finally, the erudite use of Colombini's Epistolario as a language text is studied. The volume closes with a documentary appendix on the Jesuat convent of Chiusi.

Monasticism and religious orders.

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Between the 11th and the 20th century, the monastery of San Miniato al Monte in Florence played a leading role in the religious and cultural life of the city. The volume analyses for the first time the historical and documentary evolution of this regular institute, famous almost only from the architectural and artistic points of view. The book focuses the period of the bishop's patronage in the 11th century, when the monastery and some of its members emerged in the context of the ecclesiastical reform, and continues with the study of the the Olivetan monks community, during the 14th-16th centuries, to arrive at the important structural and functional, but also semantic, transformations of the monument between the 18th century and the contemporary times.

Monasticism and religious orders.

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Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Monasticism and religious orders --- History

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Missions --- Monasticism and religious orders

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Qu'est-ce qu'une règle, si elle semble se confondre avec la vie ? Et qu'est-ce qu'une vie humaine si, en chacun de ses gestes, en chacune de ses paroles, en chacun de ses silences, elle ne peut plus se distinguer de la règle ? C'est à ces questions que le livre de Giorgio Agamben tente de donner une réponse, à la faveur d'une relecture passionnée de ce phénomène fascinant et d'une portée considérable que fut le monachisme occidental depuis Pacôme jusqu'à François d'Assise. Tout en s'appuyant sur une reconstruction minutieuse de la vie des moines dans leur souci obsessionnel de la scansion temporelle et de la règle, Agamben montre que la véritable nouveauté du monachisme ne réside pas dans la confusion entre la vie et la norme, mais dans la découverte d'une nouvelle dimension humaine où, pour la première fois peut-être, la "vie" comme telle s'affirme dans son autonomie et où la revendication de la "très haute pauvreté" lance au droit un défi dont notre époque doit encore tenir compte.

Christian religious orders --- Christian spirituality --- Religious studies