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During the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries the Mercedarian Order of friars, founded in the 1220s, underwent a period of reform from which it emerged utterly transformed. This study sets out to examine not only the context of that reform - the policies of the crown and the papacy, the condition of Catalonia and Spain at large, the circumstances prevailing within the Order and the dialogue with its past - but also to grasp the essence of monastic reform itself against this diverse background. The imposition of other than purely religious criteria onto the reform agenda alerts us to the deeper implications of monastic change in Early Modern Europe. For the Mercedarians the result by 1650 was a wholly new Order; the evolution of this process, by turns calculated and unexpected, is here explored.

Monasticism and religious orders --- Church history --- History. --- Mercedarians --- Spain --- Church history. --- 271.65 --- -Monasticism and religious orders --- -Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Mercedariërs --- -Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives --- Mercedarios --- Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced --- Ordo Beatae Mariae Virginis de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum --- Nolascans --- Ordre de Notre Dame de la Merci --- Brethren of the Redemption of Captives --- Mercidarians --- Orden de la Redención de Cautivos --- Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the Ransom of Captives --- Orden de la Merced --- Orden de los Mercedarios --- Order of Our Lady of Mercy --- Knights of St. Eulalia --- Knights of Saint Eulalia --- OdeM (Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives) --- O. de M. --- Order of Our Lady of Ransom --- Orden Mercedaria --- -Church history --- -Mercedariërs --- -History --- 271.65 Mercedariërs --- -271.65 Mercedariërs --- Monachism --- -Christianity --- Orders, Religious --- -Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Ransom of Captives --- Monasticism and religious orders - Spain - History. --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Spain - Church history. --- Ordo de Mercede --- Redemptionum Ordo de Mercede --- Churchhistory