Description:
John Van Engen studies the Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, within their own time and space, the social and religious conditions that marked towns and parishes in northern Europe during the fifteenth century, and their challenge to received notions of religion within the widespread upheavals in cultural and religious life of the period.
Review Quotes:
"This is a painstakingly detailed narrative into which analysis is seamlessly woven. . . . A major contribution on several fronts."--Church History