The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (C. 1480-1650)

Theology, Travel, and Territoriality
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40034-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: The Medieval Franciscans

In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishment in Jerusalem increasingly sought to cultivate strong ideological ties between themselves and the Holy Land, participating actively in contemporary literatures of geographia sacra and Levantine pilgrimage and travel. It becomes clear how the friars constructed a collective memory using the ideological canon of their order – featuring Bonaventurian theology, marvels of the east, cartography, apocalyptic visions of history, calls for Crusade, and finally a pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritsema van Eck, Marianne P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Transcriptions, Orthography, and Documentation

List of Figures

1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches

1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space

2The “Holy” Land

3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality

4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise

5Synopsis

2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos

1Guglingen Sets the Scene

2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle

3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing

4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centre
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5Conclusion

3Holy Places, Sacred Travel

1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage

2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space

3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective

4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion

5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant

6Conclusion

4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century

1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem

2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land

3Guglingen’s call for Crusade

4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons

5St Francis in the Holy Land

6Conclusion

5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem

2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century

3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land

4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land

5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism

6Conclusion

6Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D. (2017), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in late medieval and early modern religious history, and has published on pilgrimage and travel, historical cartography, graffiti, and sacri monti.