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245 10 a| Men of God :b| mendicant orders in colonial Mexico /c| Asunción Lavrin.;

264 1 a| Lincoln :b| University of Nebraska Press,c| [2024];

300 a| xxiii, 403 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Confluencias;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Childhood: prescriptions and memories -- The threshold of religious life: the novitiate -- Lay brothers: an alternative choice -- Sexuality: the treacherous flesh -- Missionaries: preaching their faith -- Martyrs: the offer of life -- Death: the test of faith.;

520 a| "A sweeping cultural history of the men of Augustinian, Franciscan, and Dominican orders in New Spain, from the Late sixteenth century through 1800"--c| Provided by publisher.;

520 a| "A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the missionary work of the Augustinian, Franciscan, and Dominican friars, few have addressed their everyday lives and how the internal discipline of their orders shaped the men within them. In Men of God Asunción Lavrin offers a sweeping yet intimate history of the mendicant friars in New Spain from the late sixteenth century through 1800. Focusing on these individuals' lives from childhood through death, Lavrin explores contemporaneous ideas from how to raise a boy to the friars' training as novices, and the similarities and differences in the life experiences of lay brothers and ordained members. She discusses their sexuality to reveal the challenges and failures of religious manhood, as well as the drive behind their missionary duties, especially in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Men of God also explores the concepts and realities of martyrdom and death, significant elements in the spirituality of the mendicant friars of colonial Mexico"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Men of God : mendicant orders in colonial Mexico / Asunción Lavrin.

Author/creator	Lavrin, Asunción author.
Format	Book
Publication	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
Description	xxiii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Friars--Mexico. --History. Monasticism and religious orders--Mexico. --History. Masculinity--Religious aspects. --Catholic Church. --History. Mexico--History. --Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Series	Confluencias Confluencias (Lincoln, Neb.) ^A1479398
Contents	Childhood: prescriptions and memories -- The threshold of religious life: the novitiate -- Lay brothers: an alternative choice -- Sexuality: the treacherous flesh -- Missionaries: preaching their faith -- Martyrs: the offer of life -- Death: the test of faith.
Abstract	"A sweeping cultural history of the men of Augustinian, Franciscan, and Dominican orders in New Spain, from the Late sixteenth century through 1800"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract	"A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the missionary work of the Augustinian, Franciscan, and Dominican friars, few have addressed their everyday lives and how the internal discipline of their orders shaped the men within them. In Men of God Asunción Lavrin offers a sweeping yet intimate history of the mendicant friars in New Spain from the late sixteenth century through 1800. Focusing on these individuals' lives from childhood through death, Lavrin explores contemporaneous ideas from how to raise a boy to the friars' training as novices, and the similarities and differences in the life experiences of lay brothers and ordained members. She discusses their sexuality to reveal the challenges and failures of religious manhood, as well as the drive behind their missionary duties, especially in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Men of God also explores the concepts and realities of martyrdom and death, significant elements in the spirituality of the mendicant friars of colonial Mexico"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2024021574
ISBN	9781496240446
ISBN	9781496237804 hardcover
ISBN	1496237803 hardcover
ISBN	1496240448 paperback
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book

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