mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800Melvin, Karen.creatortextbibliographyElectronic books.Church history.History.cauStanford, CalifStanford University Press©20122012monographiceng1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : mapThis 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 urban residents of all races and social standings and engaged in traditional mendicant activities, serving as preachers, confessors, spiritual.Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810 -- Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities -- Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries -- Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society -- Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture.Karen Melvin.Includes bibliographical references and index.n-mx---e-sp---n------s------Catholic ChurchMexicoHistory16th centuryCatholic ChurchMexicoHistory17th centuryCatholic Church.FriarsMexicoHistory16th centuryFriarsMexicoHistory17th centuryColonial citiesMexicoHistory16th centuryColonial citiesMexicoHistory17th centuryMexicoChurch history16th centuryMexicoChurch history17th centuryMexicoHistorySpanish colony, 1540-1810SpainColoniesAmericaReligious life and customsRELIGIONInstitutions & OrganizationsColonial citiesFriarsSpanish coloniesAmericaMexicoHISTORY / Latin America / South America 1500-1810 fast BX2820 .M45 2012eb271/.06072Melvin, Karen.Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012(DLC) 20110054729780804783255080478325X22573/ctvqrm9j1 JSTORhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=713340http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=713340http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=713340http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=713340E7B11020420200709060104.0ocn774290219eng