Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages, John Van Engen's 2008 study from the University of Pennsylvania Press, is a scholarly history of the late medieval Devotio Moderna reform movement and its communities. Its strength is that it is a substantial academic press monograph drawing on the movement's own surviving documentary record. Its limit is that, as with any single-author synthesis of a broad movement, a claim about one specific community should be checked against the book's own citation of that community's particular sources.
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John Van Engen's Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, the top tier reflecting a substantial academic press monograph drawing on the Devotio Moderna movement's own surviving documentary record. As with any single-author synthesis of a broad movement, a claim about one specific community should be checked against the book's own citation of that community's particular sources. NotesScholarly study of the Devotio Moderna and the Brethren and Sisters of the Common Life, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
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AuthorJohn Van Engen
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year2008
Source Typebook
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Organizations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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