Chapter 5: Collective biographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of abbreviations XI
5. Note to the reader XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1: Writing the Dominican past
8. Chapter 1: A vine planted by the Lord 19
9. Chapter 2: Compilation as method 35
10. Chapter 3: Order chronicles 60
11. Chapter 4: Convent chronicles 109
12. Chapter 5: Collective biographies 143
13. Part 2: Dominicans and Observance
14. Chapter 6: Observant narrative identities 177
15. Chapter 7: Strategies of Observant legitimation 218
16. Chapter 8: Dominican Observant models 242
17. Part 3: Dominicans and humanism
18. Chapter 9 : A humanist layer on the Dominican past 283
19. Conclusion 322
20. Bibliography 331
21. Appendices 353
22. Manuscripts and archivalia 378
23. Index of places 380
24. Index of persons 382
25. Index of subjects 386