Medievalists.net » St. Dominic http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 An Apostolic Vocation: The Formation of the Religious Life for the Dominican Sisters in the Thirteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/17/apostolic-vocation-formation-religious-life-dominican-sisters-thirteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/17/apostolic-vocation-formation-religious-life-dominican-sisters-thirteenth-century/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:18:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54178 The Dominican vocation sprang from complex historical understandings of the vita apostolica, and the Dominican women’s religio should be approached as part of these same contexts and perceptions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/17/apostolic-vocation-formation-religious-life-dominican-sisters-thirteenth-century/feed/ 0 The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:40:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52412 When Dominic of Caleruega began preaching in southern France in the early 1200s, he would have had no idea of the far reaching influence that the band of men he would attract would leave such a broad and enduring influence on medieval history.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/feed/ 0 Experiencing Space Through Women’s Convent Rules: the Rich Clares in Medieval Ghent (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries) http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/29/experiencing-space-through-womens-convent-rules-the-rich-clares-in-medieval-ghent-thirteenth-to-fourteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/29/experiencing-space-through-womens-convent-rules-the-rich-clares-in-medieval-ghent-thirteenth-to-fourteenth-centuries/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 15:27:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21210 The order of the Clares is generally regarded as the Second Order of Saint Francis of Assisi and was founded by Francis of Assisi himself in 1212 CE at San Damiano near Assisi, and headed by Saint Clare of Assisi (1193/94-1253 CE)

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