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.
Author(s): Marianne P. Ritsema Van Eck
Series: Medieval Franciscans, 17
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: Leiden
The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650): Theology, Travel, and Territoriality
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transcriptions, Orthography, and Documentation
List of Figures
1 Franciscan Holy Land Writing: Themes and Approaches
1 Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space
2 The “Holy” Land
3 Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality
4 Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise
5 Synopsis
2 Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos
1 Guglingen sets the Scene
2 Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle
3 The Sacred Centre in Later Franciscan Holy Land Writing
4 Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centre
5 Conclusion
3 Holy Places, Sacred Travel
1 The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage
2 The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space
3 “Why do Protestants go on Holy Land Pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective
4 Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion
5 Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan Voyages to the Levant
6 Conclusion
4 St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century
1 Guglingen’s History of Jerusalem
2 Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land
3 Guglingen’s Call for Crusade
4 Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade Projects and their Patrons
5 St Francis in the Holy Land
6 Conclusion
5 St Francis' Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1 Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in Early Ottoman
Jerusalem
2 Territorial Franciscan Holy Land Writing in the Seventeenth Century
3 Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land
4 Francis’ Pilgrimage-Possessio of the Holy Land
5 Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism
6 Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
