Religious Orders and the ‘World’

Catholic Regular Clerics’ Self-Positioning in Early Modern Societies

482 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book shows how male members of Catholic religious orders fashioned themselves in their interactions with the sin-ridden “world” that they claimed to have renounced. Inspired by recent innovations in the cultural and social history of early modern Catholicism, the contributions explore regular clerics’ practices of symbolic communication, their role as mediators between universal beliefs and practices and particular cultures of piety, their position in social networks, their relationships with Protestants, and their interactions with women religious. In so doing, the book sheds new light on the variety of material and symbolic exchanges between religious orders and secular society.

• Reihe: Kulturen des Christentums/Cultures of Christianity / Neue Zugänge zur Frühen Neuzeit/New Approaches to Early Modern History
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9783412533335
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2025
• Größe: 24.5 x 17.5 cm
• Verlag: Böhlau Köln
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Nadine Amsler
• Herausgegeben von: Giuanna Beeli
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Michèle Claudine Steiner, Martin Elbel, Silvia Mostaccio, Bernard Hours, Bruno Boute, Philipp Zwyssig, Markus Friedrich, Andreea Badea, Jodi Bilinkoff, Giuanna Beeli, Daniela Hacke, Alessia Lirosi, Thomas Fässler, Alison Weber, Lukas Camenzind, Christian Windler, Nicolas Rogger, Samuel Weber, Lukas Camenzind, Nicolas Rogger, Christian Windler, Andreea Badea, Birgit Emich, Markus Friedrich, Christian Windler