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Author Vargas, Michael A.

Title Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents / by Michael A. Vargas.

Publication Info. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The medieval and early modern Iberian world, 1569-1934 ; v. 42
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 42.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón -- History.
Dominicans. Provincia Dominicana de Aragón.
History.
Aragon (Spain) -- Church history.
Fourteenth century.
Fourteenth century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Vargas, Michael A. Taming a brood of vipers. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2011 9789004203150 (DLC) 2011001061 (OCoLC)698360631
ISBN 9789004203167 (electronic book)
9004203168 (electronic book)
9789004203150
900420315X