The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)

Church History | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

By Andrew Jotischky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xi + 370 pp. $85.00 cloth.

Like the Augustinians and Servites, the Carmelites are the oft-forgotten mendicants, overshadowed by the Preachers and Little Brothers. Theirs were not the great vaulted churches of the Dominicans or truss-roofed structures of the Franciscans; no great cloistered complexes like Santa Croce or Santa Maria Novella in Florence for them. Their name evoked no charismatic founder, and in the marketplace for lay patronage of the waning Middle Ages that could mean fiscal disaster. ...

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