Overview

During the 16th and the 17th 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.

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Author:   Bruce Taylor
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.076kg
ISBN:  

9789004118577

ISBN 10:   9004118578
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   20 June 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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' ...a remarkably informative and comprehensive accomplishment a major new contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Reformation. Timothy J. Schnmitz, Journal of Ecclesiastical History .

'.. .a remarkably informative and comprehensive accomplishmenta major new contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Reformation.'<br>Timothy J. Schnmitz, Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

Author Information

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.

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