The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts in the Middle Ages

by Andrew Jotischky

The Carmelites, the only contemplative religious order to have been founded in the Crusader States, first emerged as a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, a site associated with the prophet Elijah. Soon after migrating to the West, in the mid-thirteenth century, they began to develop the geographical associations into a complex historical tradition based on the claim to have been founded by the prophet. Carmelite historical myths were first developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198206348
• ISBN13: 9780198206347
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.7"