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Associations > Confraternities > Brethren of the Common Life

Preferred term

Brethren of the Common Life  

Definition

  • Members of a religious society, f.1381, Deventer (NLD), who lived a life in common following the precepts of the Devotion moderna (q.v.), but without religious vows; houses in Low Countries and DEU; reknowned as copyists; declined 16th c.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Broeders van het gemene leven
  • Brothers of the Common Life
  • Fratersheren

Notation

  • 112707

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-NZGB4HLV-4

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