To Govern Is to Serve : : An Essay on Medieval Democracy / / Jacques Dalarun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Dalarun, Jacques,
• MitwirkendeR: Field, Sean L.,; Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia,; Lester, Anne E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Udgivelsesår: 2023
• Sprog: English
• Serier: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (258 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones

To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalar...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Foreword
• List of Abbreviations
• Translator’s Introduction
• Preface
• Part One: The Servant Served
• 1. A Shocking Story
• 2. Sisters
• 3. Assisi
• 4. Ritual
• 5. Body
• 6. Inversions
• 7. Paradox
• Part Two Unworthiness in Power
• 1. Benedictine Beginnings
• 2. Fontevraud
• 3. The Paraclete
• 4. Grandmont I: Facts
• 5. Grandmont II: Conjectures
• 6. Preachers
• 7. Lesser Brothers I: Writings by and about Francis
• 8. Lesser Brothers II: Chronicles
• 9. Lesser Brothers III: About Face
• 10. Experiments
• Part Three Maternal Government
• 1. Treasure Trove
• 2. Pastorate
• 3. A Note
• 4. Mother
• 5. Word by Word
• 6. Resumption
• 7. Bonds
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index