Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 527
Pages: 527
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-01 - Publisher: BRILL
During the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries the Mercedarian Order of friars, founded in the 1220s, underwent a period of reform from which it emerged utt
Language: en
Pages: 540
Pages: 540
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: BRILL
This study examines the structure and being of a religious order in the context of Spanish Golden Age society. In doing so it attempts not only to place the ord
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-11 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Portraits have a long history in royal courts as a way of communicating the monarch’s status, rulership, and even piety. This anthology places such art works
Language: en
Pages: 445
Pages: 445
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-02 - Publisher: BRILL
The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspir
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-01 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume examines the Spanish Inquisition’s response to a host of self-proclaimed holy persons and miracle-working visionaries whose spiritual exploits gar
