Brethren of the Common Life
Toward the end of the 14th century, the Brethren of the Common Life arose in the Netherlands with its center at Deventer. This was a much freer type of monasticism, they were communities for the cultivation of a practical piety, without permanent vows. There was a strong mystical element. Their practice resembled Dominicans, their piety that of Franciscans.
The Brethren of the Common Life began in the Netherlands and in Germany, formed under the
influence of Gerbhart Groot (1340-1384). Groot was the author of Imitation of Christ, traditionally attributed to his disciple Thomas a Kempis.
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