Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico

by Asunción Lavrin

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 them. In Men of God Asunci n Lavrin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496237803
• ISBN13: 9781496237804
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"