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The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages

By Andrew Jotischky

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0198206348, 9780198206347, 9781423767343
LCC
BX3206.3 .J68 2002
Open Library ID
OL3657289M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1556456 bytes)
Pages
400\383
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Carmelites, the only contemplative religious order to have been founded in the Crusader States, first emerged as a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, a site associated with the prophet Elijah. Soon after migrating to the West, in the mid-thirteenth century, they began to develop the geographical associations into a complex historical tradition based on the claim to have been founded by the prophet. Carmelite historical myths were first developed as a response to the threat of supression, but increasingly came to form the basis of a distinctive ecclesiology and mission. This book, which is the first full-length study of the Carmelite historical legacy, examines the circumstances under which the traditions were constructed, describes the evolution of the traditions themselves from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and places them within the wider context of historical writing by religious orders, and attitudes to the past more generally in the later Middle Ages.

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