The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650)

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The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) is written by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004410325 (ISBN 10) and 9789004410329 (ISBN 13).

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 pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.