
Structures of Reform
The Mercedarian Order in the Spanish Golden Age
Bruce Taylor(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 20. June 2000
Book
Leather / fine binding
XIX, 506 pages
978-90-04-11857-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'...a remarkably informative and comprehensive accomplishment...a major new contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Reformation.'Timothy J. Schnmitz, Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Illustrations
3 Abb., 1 Taf.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1075 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-11857-7 (9789004118577)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.
Content
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
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