Structures of Reform: The Mercedarian Order in the Spanish Golden Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11857-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1075 g

Reihe: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples

During the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries the Mercedarian Order of friars, founded in the 1220s, underwent a period of reform from which it emerged utterly transformed.
This study sets out to examine not only the context of that reform - the policies of the crown and the papacy, the condition of Catalonia and Spain at large, the circumstances prevailing within the Order and the dialogue with its past - but also to grasp the essence of monastic reform itself against this diverse background.
The imposition of other than purely religious criteria onto the reform agenda alerts us to the deeper implications of monastic change in Early Modern Europe. For the Mercedarians the result by 1650 was a wholly new Order; the evolution of this process, by turns calculated and unexpected, is here explored.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Note on Terms and Names
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Change and Continuity: The Order from its Origins to 1467
2. New Frontiers: The Rise of Castile (1467–1561)
3. Reform and Government
4. An Order to be Reformed (1561–7)
5. The Path to Reform (1567–70)
6. The Progress of Reform (1570–5)
7. The Crisis of Reform (1575–93)
8. A New Order (1593–1648)

Conclusion: Structures of Reform

Appendix I. Provinces, Chapters and Officers (1420–1648)
Appendix II. Major Visitation Campaigns (1567–85)
Appendix III. Mercedarian Demography: Numbers of Religious and Houses

Maps A & B. The Mercedarian Order, 1500–1650: Houses, Provinces and Ransoming Destinations

Glossary
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Taylor was educated at the University of Manchester, and at Oxford where he received his D.Phil. In Modern History in 1996. He is currently a Research Affiliate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.