Path to Salvation: Temporal and Spiritual Journeys by the Mendicant Orders, c.1370–1740 9781803740393, 9781803740409, 9781803740416, 1803740396
Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and
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Table of contents :
Cover
HalfTitle
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Historiography
I Foreshadowed: Evangelical friars and their chronicles
1 Historicising typology: How the Carmelites invented their memories
The claim to Elijan foundation
The development of memories
Essential features of the narrative
The work of Felip Ribot
Conclusion
2 Bernardino Aquilano’s travels in his Chronicle of the friars Minor of the Observance
The chronicle: Text and context
Bernardino’s travels and the portrait of the Observant family
Conclusion
3 Travels by St James of the Marches in East Central Europe, 1432–1440
James’s first journey to East Central Europe
The reformer of Bosnian friaries
Preaching against the ‘fake Christian’ king
The inquisitor in Hungary
Conclusions
II Sanctified journeys of the soul
4 Seeking safe harbour: The journey from error to truth in Fray Luis de León’s ode ‘Al apartamiento’
5 From convents to chapels of ease: Irish burial and funerary practices in early modern Madrid, 1600–1680
The Irish community in Madrid
Irish funerary practices
III Frequent Travels by Intellectual and Individual Friars
6 All mankind is one: Travel and writing in Bartolomé de las Casas (1502–1566)*
7 In search of a better life: The travels of Gregorius Pogrányi OP
Dominicans on the road
Pogrányi’s biography before entering the Order and his early years as a Dominican
The great adventures
The adventurous travel is over
Some final remarks
Endnote
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
