Forthcoming: new volume on medieval religious rules and constitutions

K. Pansters & A. Plunkett-Latimer (eds.), Shaping Stability. The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages. Disciplina Monastica (DM 11), Brepols 2016. This volume examines the efforts of medieval religious communities and orders to bring stability to the dynamic complexity of organized religious life. By focusing on legislative structures and normative documents (rules, customaries, constitutions), the authors address not only such matters as the meaning of these texts an..