Contribution to Book
Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition
A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond
Document Type
Book Chapter
Disciplines
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship.
Copyright Owner
Brill
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Michael D. Bailey. "Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition" A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond Vol. 2 (2015) p. 230 - 254 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_bailey/60/
This book chapter is published as “Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition,” in A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. James D. Mixson and Bert Roest (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 230-54. Posted with permission.