The Carmelites and Antiquity
Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 July 2002
- ISBN 9780198206347
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 224x146x25 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
When the Carmelite friars first settled in Europe in the thirteenth century, they were largely unknown. In order to compete with the more established orders of friars, the Carmelites constructed historical myths to explain their origins and identity. This book examines the development of these traditions, and places them within the more general context of historical writing by religious orders in the later Middle Ages.
MoreLong 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 suppression, 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 legendary, 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.
In this sympathetic study, Jotischky has helped us to understand how and why the Carmelites evolved this myth of their origins, and in doing so has also shed much welcome light on late-medieval attitudes to antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Carmelites, c.1187-1530
Identity, Image, and Antiquity: The Carmelite Habit
The `Ignea sagitta' (1270): The First Defence of Carmelite Tradition
The Development of Carmelite Historical Narrative, c.1240-1400
Carmelite Ecclesiology in the Fourteenth Century
Hagiography and the Orthodox Past: Two Carmelite Saints
The Carmelite Historical Tradition, c.1400-1530
Patterns in Mendicant Historical Thinking
Antiquity, Truth, and Historical Method in the Carmelites and Others
Conclusion
