A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries

by Krijn Pansters (Editor)

An introduction to the Rules and Customaries of the main religious Orders in Medieval Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic, Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite.

452 pages, Hardcover

Published June 4, 2020

About the author

Ph.D. (2007) in Medieval History, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Ph.D. (2019) in Medieval Theology, KU Leuven, teaches Christian Spirituality at Tilburg University (School of Catholic Theology, Franciscan Study Center). His publications include De kardinale deugden in de Lage Landen, 1200-1500 (Hilversum: 2007), Franciscan Virtue: Spiritual Growth and the Virtues in Franciscan Literature and Instruction of the Thirteenth Century (Leiden and Boston: 2012) and the edited volumes The Carthusians in the Low Countries: Studies in Monastic History and Heritage (Louvain: 2014), (with Abraham Plunkett-Latimer) Shaping Stability: The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: 2016), and A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries (Leiden: 2020). He is Chairman of the IGTM – International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (https://www.medievaltheology.org) and Chief Editor of Franciscan Connections (https://www.franciscanconnections.com).