How Long to Read Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 39 minutes to read Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life by John Van Engen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the textile and book trades, all the while refusing to profess vows as members of any religious order or to acquire spouses and personal property as lay citizens. They defended their self-designed style of life as exemplary and sustained it in the face of opposition, their women labeled "beguines" and their men "lollards," both meant as derogatory terms. Yet the movement grew, drawing in women and schoolboys, priests and laymen, and spreading outward toward Münster, Flanders, and Cologne. The Devout were arguably more culturally significant than the Lollards and Beguines, yet they have commanded far less scholarly attention in English. John Van Engen's magisterial book keeps the Modern Devout at its center and thinks through their story anew. Few interpreters have read the Devout so insistently within their own time and space by looking to the social and religious conditions that marked towns and parishes in northern Europe during the fifteenth century and examining the widespread upheavals in cultural and religious life between the 1370s and the 1440s. In Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life, Van Engen grasps the Devout in their humanity, communities, and beliefs, and places them firmly within the urban societies of the Low Countries and the cultures we call late medieval.

How long is Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life?

Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life by John Van Engen is 447 pages long, and a total of 114,879 words.

This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 140% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 27 minutes to read Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life?

Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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