Overview
- Offers a compelling alternative history to the ‘Discovery of Americas’ through the lens of the Franciscans
- Provides cross-appeal to a wide variety of scholars, including social, cultural, and intellectual historians of medieval and early modern Europe
- Connects the discussion of the Franciscans to a deeper understanding of colonial history
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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About this book
This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julia McClure is a global historian interested in the history of poverty, charity and colonialism. She has specialised in the history of the Franciscans and the Spanish Atlantic. She gained her PhD at the University of Sheffield, had research fellowships at Harvard’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the European University Institute in Florence, and is now at the Centre for Global History at the University of Warwick.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Franciscan Invention of the New World
Authors: Julia McClure
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43023-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43022-5Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82718-6Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43023-2Published: 30 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 229
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, History of Religion