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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.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 508
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples
Publication Date:
20 June 2000
ISBN: 9789004118577
Format: Other
'...a remarkably informative and comprehensive accomplishment…a major new contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Reformation.’
Timothy J. Schnmitz, Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Timothy J. Schnmitz, Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
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.