The Dominican Order's exponential growth in the first decades of its existence brought with it the challenges of providing a stable organizational framework for the order and its members, and maintaining unity and cohesion, from local to provincial and order-wide levels. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the theory and practice of introducing order in all areas of Dominican life by means of rules and guidelines. With the rich transmission of acts of Dominican general and provincial chapters providing a fruitful starting point, the essays branch out to take account of a wide range of materials, including literary sources, codicological and musicological evidence, and architectural remains. Among the overarching questions asked are: by what means were rules and guidelines disseminated and implemented in the Dominican Order; what impact did they have and what were their intended, but also unintended, consequences; and what were the effects and outcomes of not following the rules laid down by the Order.
Making and breaking the rules: An introduction to sources and perspectives
págs. 1-17
The fixed and the fluid: Observations on the rational bases of dominican constitution and organization in the middle ages
págs. 19-36
Obeying god, not man: Heresy, inquisitors, and obedience in the Dominican Order
Christine Caldwell Ames
págs. 37-58
Dominicans and polyphony: A reappraisal of a strained relationship
págs. 59-88
The dominicans and mission: Looking again at the Barcelona disputation of 1263
págs. 89-104
Rewriting the rules: The secular-mendicant controversy in France and its impact on dominican legislation, c.1230-90
págs. 105-130
Black and white: Dominican reform and heretical inversion in the Fifteenth-Century low countries
págs. 131-151
'Totum officium bene correctum habeatur in domo': Uniformity in the dominican liturgy
págs. 153-172
'Nullus scienter litteram aut notam mutet': Dominicans (dis)obeying the regulations for the copying of chant books. An example from late medieval Dalmatia
págs. 173-188
Architecture and space in the Dominican Order: On the impact of norms and concepts in early normative and narrative sources
págs. 189-224
Legislation, architecture, and liturgy in the dominican nunneries in Castile during the late middle ages: A world of diversitas and peculiarities
págs. 225-252
The beginnings of the study of foreign languages in the Dominican Order: Regulation, implementation, and impact
págs. 253-272
Clarifying the rules: A normative system for the observant dominican nuns (Portugal, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries)
págs. 273-298
Performance management: Creating order in Thirteenth-Century dominican preaching
págs. 299-321
'Volumus ut carceres fiant . . .': Medieval dominican legislation on detention and imprisonment
págs. 323-348
Disciplinary deportations: Forced resettlement as a means of control and correction
págs. 349-368
Fratres regulares et irregulares: Dominican implementation, observation, and violation of rules in the province of Dacia
págs. 369-384
Dominicans from the Province of Dacia at the Well of Grace: Petitions from Scandinavian dominicans to the apostolic penitentiary, c.1450-1530
págs. 385-399
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