The Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-45496-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval Religions and Cultures

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 addressing these questions, the volume expands our understanding of the mendicants by offering chapters that examine this religious movement within urban environments from the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Southern France, and Italy, to the Dalmatian Coast, Aegean Islands, Egypt, and the Levant. The chapters treat a wide array of textual, artistic, and architectural sources to consider how mendicants navigated and negotiated the unique social dynamics of Mediterranean cities in their interactions with political potentates, merchants, prisoners, pilgrims, religious and intellectual elites, non-Christians, and inhabitants of the surrounding countryside. It thus offers an interdisciplinary and broad survey of mendicancy as a social-religious phenomenon of the urban Mediterranean, demonstrating that these communities can be defined by much more than their traditionally accepted roles as beggars, preachers, and teachers.

Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200–1500 will be of interest to scholars and students across multiple disciplines engaged in questions about medieval mendicancy, gender, urban society, inter-religious encounters, and the Mediterranean.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heyne, Jon Paul

Powell, Austin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: By Jon Paul Heyne and Austin Powell

Tunis & Paris

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

Portugal

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

Egypt

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

Southern France

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

- “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

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

Jerusalem

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

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

Dubrovnik

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.