The Franciscan invention of the new world
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The Franciscan invention of the new world
（The new Middle Ages）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-224) and index
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Description
This book examines the story of the 'discovery of America' through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
Table of Contents
Contents
Abbreviations. 4
Prologue, The story. 5
Introduction. 7
Chapter One. 20
The Landscapes of Franciscan Poverty. 20
The Franciscan attempt to disown the world. 20
The colonial need for the concept of property. 20
Freedom from property?. 21
From property to rights. 27
Necessity and Use. 30
Property in Paradise?. 32
Conclusion. 34
Chapter Two. 36
Feeding the Imaginative Landscape of the Franciscan Order 36
The Franciscan attempt to 'know' the world. 36
Franciscan global knowledge. 37
Spiritual knowledge. 42
The Franciscan 'discovery' of the New World. 45
Losing the Canary Islands. 50
Conclusion. 55
Chapter Three. 57
The Franciscan Atlantic. 57
Planting the cross in the Atlantic world. 57
The Canary Islands. 58
The Spanish Atlantic coast 64
The Caribbean. 67
Mainland America. 71
Conclusion: A Franciscan Map of the Early Atlantic. 74
Chapter Four 76
Franciscan landscapes of identity and violence. 76
The Franciscan Invention of Coloniality. 76
The Franciscans and the landscapes of power 78
The Transatlantic Inquisition. 80
Franciscan violences and the forging of a New World. 87
The Multidirectionality of Coloniality. 91
Symbolic worldmaking (1) 94
Conclusion. 96
Chapter Five. 98
The New World at the End of the World. 98
The Tale of the Dragon's Tail in the Dragon's Tail 98
The construction of the Franciscan historical worldview.. 100
The Franciscan historical invention of the New World. 109
Symbolic worldmaking (2) 112
Conclusion. 115
Conclusion. 117
Bibliography. 121
Unpublished Archival Sources. 121
Printed Primary Sources. 121
Secondary Sources: Books. 128
Secondary Sources: Articles and Chapters. 138
Unpublished secondary sources. 145
Websites. 145
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