The Holy Land in observant Franciscan texts (c. 1480-1650) : theology, travel, and territoriality /

The Holy Land in observant Franciscan texts (c. 1480-1650) : theology, travel, and territoriality /

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Author / Creator:	Ritsema van Eck, Marianne P., author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Description:	xi, 260 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 ; volume 17 Medieval Franciscans ; v. 17.
Subject:	Franciscans -- Palestine. Franciscans. Christianity and geography. Literature. Authorship. Authorship. Christianity and geography. Literature. Palestine. Middle East -- Palestine.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963418

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ISBN:	9789004400344 9004400346 9789004410329
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 possessio-pilgrimage of the Holy Land by Francis"--
Other form:	Online version: Ritsema van Eck, Marianne P., The Holy Land in observant Franciscan texts (c. 1480-1650) Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. 9789004410329

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