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In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishment in Jerusalem increasingly sought to cultivate strong ideological ties between themselves and the Holy Land, participating actively in contemporary literatures of geographia sacra and Levantine pilgrimage and travel. It becomes clear how the friars constructed a collective memory using the ideological canon of their order – featuring Bonaventurian theology, marvels of the east, cartography, apocalyptic visions of history, calls for Crusade, and finally a pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.

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Author:   Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9789004400344

ISBN 10:   9004400346
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Note on Transcriptions, Orthography, and Documentation List of Figures  1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches  1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space  2The “Holy” Land  3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality  4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise  5Synopsis  2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos  1Guglingen Sets the Scene  2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle  3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing  4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centre ss  5Conclusion  3Holy Places, Sacred Travel  1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage  2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space  3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective  4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion  5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant  6Conclusion  4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century  1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem  2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land  3Guglingen’s call for Crusade  4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons  5St Francis in the Holy Land  6Conclusion  5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem  2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century  3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land  4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land  5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism  6Conclusion  6Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D. (2017), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in late medieval and early modern religious history, and has published on pilgrimage and travel, historical cartography, graffiti, and sacri monti.

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