Path to Salvation

Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This book reflects the objective approach of trained historians in its skilled deployment of source documents.

Autorentext

Benjamin Hazard, Ph.D. is Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of History, University College Dublin.

Inhalt

Contents: Historicising typology: How the Carmelites invented their memories Bernardino Aquilano's travels in his Chronicle of the friars Minor of the Observance Travels by St James of the Marches in East Central Europe, 1432 1440 Seeking safe harbour: The journey from error to truth in Fray Luis de León's ode 'Al apartamiento' From convents to chapels of ease: Irish burial and funerary practices in early modern Madrid, 1600 1680 All mankind is one: Travel and writing in Bartolomé de las Casas (1502 1566) In search of a better life: The travels of Gregorius Pogrányi OP.