Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain

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This book tracks New Spain’s mendicant orders past their so-referred to as golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally an important roles in what Melvin terms the “spiritual consolidation” of cities. Beginning within the late sixteenth century, cities became home to the vast majority of friars and to the orders’ wealthiest houses, and mendicants became deeply embedded in urban social and cultural life. Friars ministered to urban residents of all races and social standings and engaged in traditional mendicant activities, serving as preachers, confessors, spiritual directors, alms collectors, educators, scholars, and sponsors of charitable works. Every order brought to this work a distinct identity that informed people’s beliefs and shaped variations within the practice of Catholicism. Contrary to prevailing views, mendicant orders flourished right through the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, or even the eighteenth-century reforms that ended this era weren’t as devastating as has been assumed.Even within the face of new institutional challenges, the demand for their services and products continued throughout the end of the colonial period, demonstrating the continued vitality of baroque piety.

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