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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transcriptions, Orthography, and Documentation List of Figures 1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches 1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space 2The “Holy” Land 3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality 4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise 5Synopsis 2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos 1Guglingen Sets the Scene 2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle 3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing 4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centre ss 5Conclusion 3Holy Places, Sacred Travel 1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage 2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space 3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective 4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion 5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant 6Conclusion 4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century 1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem 2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land 3Guglingen’s call for Crusade 4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons 5St Francis in the Holy Land 6Conclusion 5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem 2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century 3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land 4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land 5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism 6Conclusion 6Epilogue Bibliography Index
