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Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500 book cover

1st Edition

Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500

Edited By Jon Paul Heyne, Austin Powell Copyright 2025
184 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200–1500. It asks questions including: what was specifically “urban” about the mendicant movement? what does it mean to think of the mendicants as an “urban phenomenon”? and was there anything common to mendicant experiences in the cities of the Mediterranean? In... Read more
  1. Introduction: By Jon Paul Heyne and Austin Powell

 

Tunis & Paris

 

  1. “Purposes for a Polemical Pair: Reading Ramon Martí’s De seta Machometi and Explanatio simboli Apostolorum in Dominican Urban Contexts” by Amy C. Boland

 

Portugal

 

  1. “Clarissan Reform, Miraculous Objects and Shared Devotions: Portuguese Colettine Nuns within their Urban Communities” by Paula Cardoso

 

Egypt

 

  1. “In the Cities of the Sultans: Mendicants in Mamluk Egypt” by Jon Paul Heyne

 

Southern France

 

  1. “‘Hostile people invading the country’: Social Unrest and the Forced Relocation of the Poor Clares in the Fourteenth-Century Midi” by Hannah Jones

 

            Castile

 

  1. “Postmodum autem missus Palentiam: The Urbanizing Upbringing of the Castilian Canon Domingo de Caleruega, Founder of the Order of Preachers” by Kyle C. Lincoln

Venice

 

  1. “Immigration, Sex, and Prayer: Dominicans and Humanists in Venice, 1390 - 1440” By Austin Powell

 

Jerusalem

 

  1. “Being Franciscans in Mamluk Jerusalem: Three Years in the Life of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (1436-1438)” by Camille Rouxpetel

 

            Aegean

 

  1.  “Mendicant Convents in the Aegean Sea: Visual and Material Impact on Urban and Insular Dynamics (13th-16th c.)” by Panayota Volti

 

Dubrovnik

  1. “The Coordinated Development of the Mendicant Convents and City Walls of Dubrovnik” by Joseph Williams

Biography

Jon Paul Heyne is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Dallas and holds a PhD in history from The Catholic University of America. His research interests include pilgrimage, the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, and inter‑faith interactions across the Mediterranean.

Austin Powell holds a PhD in history from The Catholic University of America and has been a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in the Classics Program at the University of California–Davis. His research explores the interconnections between the mendicant orders, penitent laywomen, mysticism, and textual communities in late medieval Italy.

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