Devotio Moderna
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Devotio Moderna was a movement for religious reform that called for apostolic renewal through the rediscovery of genuine pious practices such as humility, obedience, simplicity of life, and integratio
Modern photo of Windesheim
The beginning of the Book of the Hours of Geert Groote
Vita Christi (Life of Christ) by Ludolph of Saxony, Vol. 1, folio.
Geert Groote
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Gerard Groote, otherwise Gerrit or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, was a Dutch Catholic deacon, who was a popular preacher and the founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He was a key fig
Devotio Moderna
…such as humility, obedience, simplicity of life, and integration into the community. It began in the late 14th century, largely through the work of Gerard Groote, and flourished in the Low Countries and Germany in the 15th century but came to an end with the Protestant Reformation. It is most known today through…
Museum Geert Grote Huis, Deventer (2016)
Excerpt from a "simple" Middle Dutch book of hours, using the translation of Geert Groote. Made in the 2nd half of the fifteenth century in Brabant.