The Carmelites and Antiquity

Mendicants and their pasts in the Middle Ages

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ID9325829
AuthorsAndrew Jotischky (corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages370
Publication date2002-07-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Carmelites and antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206347.001.0001
OpenAlexW2494813965
Open LibraryOL3657289M
ISBN9780198206347
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The Carmelite Order began when a group of hermits settled in a regulated community on Mt Carmel in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the first decade of the 13th century. As the hermits began to found new houses across Christendom, they adopted mendicant practices and developed legendary traditions designed to extend their putative history back before 1200. The Carmelite historical legendary sought to associate generic eremitical monasticism and its Old Testament precursors with the Carmelite Order in order to claim that the Order, founded by Elijah, represented the oldest form of monasticism. This book examines the processes entailed in creating Carmelite history, analyses Carmelite historical narratives written between c.1280 and c.1530, and offers interpretations of the main techniques and arguments deployed in their construction. The wider context of historical writing in other religious orders is also considered, both for comparative purposes and to examine the reception of Carmelite arguments among contemporaries

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Literature · Monasticism · Narrative · Order (exchange · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Carmelites · Christian literature, English (Middle) · Church history

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