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

ISBN: 0804774862

ISBN13: 9780804774864

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

This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home to the majority of friars and to the orders' wealthiest houses, and mendicants became deeply embedded in urban social and cultural life. Friars ministered to...

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