1st Edition
The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain
Edited By Francisco Garcia-Serrano
Copyright 2018
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Church’s past, these religious orders were deeply involved in earthly matters while preaching the Gospel to the laity and producing many of the greatest scholars of the time. Furthermore, the friars... Read more
Preface, Contributors, Abbreviations, Figures and Maps, Introduction, 1. Dominicus Hispanus, 2. Ramon de Penyafort and his Influence, 3. The Mendicant Orders and the Castilian Monarchy in the reign of Ferdinand III, 4. Ramón Martí, the Trinity, and the Limits of Dominican Mission, 5. Narrative and Counter-Narrative: Dominican and Muslim Preaching in Medieval Iberia, 6. The Poor Clares of Alcocer and the Castilian Crown (13th to 15th Centuries), 7. Friars and Nuns: Dominican Economy and Religious Identity in Medieval Castile, 8. Networks of Dissent and the Franciscans of the Crown of Aragon, 9. Faction, Politics and Dominican Inquisitors in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon, 10. Sutzura e viltat carnal. The place of sin and lust in the treatises of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis (circa 1400), 11. Valencian Dominicans beyond the Convent of Santo Domingo, 12. Ferdinand of Antequera and Santo Domingo El Real de Toledo: Patronage, Advice and Spritual Favour (c. 1390-1416), Index
Biography
Francisco García-Serrano is Professor of Medieval History at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. He has published extensively examining the importance of the mendicant orders in medieval Spain.
