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her­aus­gegeben von

Mirko Bre­it­en­stein, Gert Melville

in Verbindung mit:

Gian­car­lo Anden­na (Milano), Rain­er Berndt SJ (Frank­furt a.M.), Michael Cusato OFM (St. Bonaven­ture, NY), Nicolan­ge­lo D’A­cun­to (Bres­cia), Jacques Dalarun (Paris), Marek Der­wich (Wro­claw), Albrecht Diem (Syra­cuse, NY), Bri­an Gold­ing (Southamp­ton), Annette Kehnel (Mannheim), Bri­an Patrick McGuire (Roskilde), Anne Müller (Dres­den), Jens Röhrkas­ten (Birm­ing­ham), Rober­to Rus­coni (Roma), Car­los Ruta (Buenos Aires), Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Fri­bourg), Steven Van­der­put­ten (Gent), André Vauchez (Paris), Rudolf Weigand (Eich­stätt)

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Das Konzil von Kon­stanz und die mit ihm erre­ichte Beendi­gung des päp­stlichen Schis­mas set­zten in der gesamten Kirche und ins­beson­dere in den Orden lange aufges­taute Reformen­ergien frei. Infolge der öster­re­ichis­chen Vis­i­ta­tion von 1418/19 wurde das altehrwürdi­ge Stift Klosterneuburg Teil der Raud­nitzer Reform­be­we­gung der Augustin­er-Chorher­ren und erfuhr unter seinem neuen Propst Georg Muestinger eine kul­turelle Blüte. Die im Buch dargestell­ten Ereignisse zeigen, wie Reformkräfte sowohl zusam­men­wirk­ten als auch miteinan­der konkur­ri­erten, um das Ordensleben zu erneuern. Im Mit­telpunkt ste­ht die Ein­führung der Raud­nitzer Statuten im Stift Klosterneuburg und damit Georg Muestingers ganz eigene Adap­tion dieser Geset­zge­bung für sein Haus.

Clemens Tim­o­thy Gal­ban ist gebür­tiger US-Amerikan­er, katholis­ch­er Priester und Reg­u­larkanon­iker des Augustin­er-Chorher­ren­s­tiftes Klosterneuburg vor den Toren Wiens. Er erwarb seinen BA und STB an The Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty of Amer­i­ca in Wash­ing­ton, DC, und schloss 2019 seine Dok­torar­beit an der Päp­stlichen Uni­ver­sität vom Heili­gen Kreuz in Rom ab. Seit­dem set­zt er seine Forschun­gen über die Geschichte der Augustin­er-Chorher­ren fort.

Clemens T. Gal­ban, Propst Georg Muestinger und die Ein­führung der Raud­nitzer Reform im Stift Klosterneuburg 1418 — ca. 1421, Bd. 80, 2021, 340 S., 34.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978–3‑643–51085‑3. Jet­zt bestellen

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Defin­ing the Reli­gious Life in the South Asian Tra­di­tions, in Bud­dhism, and in East­ern and West­ern Chris­tian­i­ty

The fact that cer­tain cul­tures and reli­gions pro­duced a way of life which, for the sake of self-per­fec­tion, expect­ed its adher­ents to with­draw from var­i­ous oblig­a­tions to the world and to enter into the organ­i­sa­tion­al struc­ture of a monas­tic com­mu­ni­ty obvi­ous­ly rep­re­sents a con­stant anthro­po­log­i­cal foun­da­tion. The spec­trum of monas­tic life with­in these var­i­ous cul­tures was extreme­ly diverse in its man­i­fes­ta­tions. It was the result of a high degree of flex­i­bil­i­ty in the face of con­stant­ly chang­ing ideas about piety, social needs and con­cepts of com­mu­ni­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty.

How­ev­er, an inter­re­li­gious study with the aim of a schol­ar­ly analy­sis of com­pa­ra­ble key ele­ments across dif­fer­ent monas­tic cul­tures does not exist yet. The edi­tors as well as the authors of this vol­ume are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in how monas­tic life was realised com­mu­nal­ly in many ways accord­ing to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the under­stand­ing of com­mu­ni­ty and civil­i­sa­tion and there­fore made a deci­sive con­tri­bu­tion to the for­ma­tion of our cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty.

Mirko Bre­it­en­stein, Gert Melville (Eds.), Between Com­mu­ni­ty and Seclu­sion. Defin­ing the Reli­gious Life in the South Asian Tra­di­tions, in Bud­dhism, and in East­ern and West­ern Chris­tian­i­ty, Bd. 79, 2020, 202 S., 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978–3‑643–14875‑9. Jet­zt bestellen

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Monks, Nuns, Canons, and Fri­ars as Elites of Medieval Cul­ture

For over a thou­sand years, monks, nuns, canons, fri­ars, and oth­ers under reli­gious vows stood at the pin­na­cle of West­ern Euro­pean soci­ety. For their ascetic sac­ri­fices, their learn­ing, piety, and exper­tise, they were accord­ed posi­tions of pow­er and influ­ence, and a wide range of legal, finan­cial and social priv­i­leges. As such they present an impor­tant oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er the nature and dynam­ics of an “elite” in medieval cul­ture. Using medieval reli­gious life as their inter­pre­tive lens, the essays of this vol­ume seek to uncov­er the essen­tial mark­ers of elite sta­tus. They explore how those under vows claimed and man­i­fest­ed elite sta­tus in com­plex spir­i­tu­al, tem­po­ral, and social com­bi­na­tions. They explore the work­ings of elite sta­tus from day to day, across region and locale — who earned recog­ni­tion and how, whether through spe­cif­ic achieve­ments or the deploy­ment of spe­cif­ic capac­i­ties; who rec­og­nized, con­ferred, or helped main­tain elite sta­tus, how and why; how elite sta­tus could be rede­fined, con­test­ed or reject­ed. The essays also seek to under­stand how medieval Euro­pean reli­gious elites com­pared to those found in oth­er cul­tures and set­tings, from Syr­ia and South Asia to the ear­ly mod­ern transat­lantic world.

Gert Melville, James D. Mix­son (Eds.), Vir­tu­osos of Faith, Monks, Nuns, Canons, and Fri­ars as Elites of Medieval Cul­ture, Bd. 78, 2020, 338 S., 49.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978–3‑643–91363‑0. Jet­zt bestellen

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The Coun­cil of Con­stance and the con­clu­sion of the Papal Schism released long pent-up ener­gies of reform through­out the Church and in the reli­gious Orders in par­tic­u­lar. The Aus­tri­an Vis­i­ta­tion of 1418/19 which pro­pelled Georg Muestinger to the high­est posi­tion in Stift Klosterneuburg and intro­duced the Raud­nitz Reform of canons reg­u­lar into his ancient monastery, illus­trates how these ener­gies both coop­er­at­ed and com­pet­ed with each oth­er to achieve a reform of reli­gious life. The cen­ter­piece of this work is the intro­duc­tion of the Raud­nitz Statutes into the monastery and Muestinger’s adap­ta­tion of that leg­is­la­tion.

Clemens Tim­o­thy Gal­ban is a native of the USA, a Catholic priest and canon reg­u­lar of St. Augus­tine of Stift Klosterneuburg out­side Vien­na, Aus­tria. He com­plet­ed his doc­tor­al work in 2019 at the Pon­tif­i­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of the Holy Cross in Rome and con­tin­ues his research into the his­to­ry of the canons reg­u­lar from his monastery.

Clemens T. Gal­ban, Provost Georg Muestinger and the Intro­duc­tion of the Raud­nitz Reform into Stift Klosterneuburg, 1418 — ca. 1421, Bd. 77, 2021, 312 S., 34.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978–3‑643–91197‑1. Jet­zt bestellen

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