{"product_id":"men-of-god-mendicant-orders-in-colonial-mexico-paperback-softback-9781496240446","title":"Men of God; Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496240446","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMen of God\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAsunción Lavrin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496240446\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, 20 illustrations, 1 table, 2 graphs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Lavrin’s comparative focus on the three mendicant orders and the breadth of her chronological coverage combined with her internal focus on the gendered nature of the development of mendicant masculinities is unique and revisionist in the historiography. \u003ci\u003eMen of God\u003c\/i\u003e is truly a magnum opus in advancing our understanding of the mentality and alternate masculinity to which all the mendicant friars aspired.”-John F. Chuchiak IV, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An erudite, elegantly constructed study of friars in colonial Mexico offering an innovative way to think about friars, not necessarily as political actors or proto-ethnographers or agents of global triumphalist Catholicism. \u003ci\u003eMen of God\u003c\/i\u003e demystifies friars, who are often treated as larger than life in the scholarly corpus.”-Martin Austin Nesvig, author of \u003ci\u003eForgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA broadly researched cultural history, \u003ci\u003eMen of God\u003c\/i\u003e 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 them. In \u003ci\u003eMen of God\u003c\/i\u003e AsunciÓn Lavrin offers a sweeping yet intimate history of the mendicant friars in New Spain from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 through the eighteenth centuries. \u003ci\u003eMen of God\u003c\/i\u003e also explores the concepts and realities of martyrdom and death, significant elements in the spirituality of the mendicant friars of colonial Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Childhood: Prescriptions and Memories \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Threshold of Religious Life: The Novitiate \u003cbr\u003e 3. Lay Brothers: An Alternative Choice \u003cbr\u003e 4. Sexuality: The Treacherous Flesh \u003cbr\u003e 5. Missionaries: Preaching their Faith  \u003cbr\u003e 6. Martyrs: The Offer of Life \u003cbr\u003e 7. Death: The Test of Faith \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685327892760,"sku":"9781496240446","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/men-of-god-mendicant-orders-in-colonial-mexico-paperback-softback-9781496240446","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}