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Author MacEvitt, Christopher Hatch, 1972- author.

Title The martyrdom of the Franciscans : Islam, the papacy, and an order in conflict / Christopher MacEvitt
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Names,Translations,and Transliterations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I Acquired the Martyrs": Bishops, Kings, and the Victory of the Martyrs -- Chapter 2. "Do Not Fear Those Who Kill the Body": The Desire for Martyrdom in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 3. "To Sustain the Frail": Franciscan Evangelization in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 4. "Their Blood Has Been Spilled Everywhere": Evangelization, Martyrdom, and Christian Triumphalism in the Early Fourteenth Century -- Chapter 5. "The Infidels Learned Nothing": Poverty, Rejection of the World, and the Creation of the Franciscan Passio -- Chapter 6. "For the Damnation of Infidels": Martyrdom and History in the Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Ministers-General -- Epilogue. The Afterlife of the Martyrs Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary "This book is about the importance of martyrdom to Franciscans during the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis History
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Religion
Religious Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Franciscans -- History -- To 1500
SUBJECT Franciscans fast
Subject Martyrdom -- Christianity -- History
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Christian martyrs -- Islamic countries
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Christian martyrs
Christianity
Church history -- Middle Ages
Interfaith relations
Islam
Martyrdom -- Christianity
Islamic countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812251938
9780812251937
081229677X
9780812296778