After the fall of Rhodes in 1522, the Order of St. John needed to recover new headquarters (which were finally established in Malta in 1530) and its reputation as militia Christi. This Religion in arms had now to redraft its chivalrous ideals within the new context of the Reformation and the Catholic Renewal. However, Hospitallers met this challenge partially and late, although they represented themselves as belonging to this glorious Religion. Such a dialectic between practice and theory is proved, for example, by an apologetic book published in 1619 in Italy and Spain, as well as by unpublished instructions in the late seventeenth century directed at the chaplains providing religious support within the Order galleys. These works offer a precise view of the contrast between the rhetoric pair made of noble blood and military value (up to the extreme of martyrdom in defence of the faith), on the one hand, and the real behaviour of men whose inadequate religious education and practice was often not compatible with their mission, on the other.
D'Avenia F (2018). Sangre de nobles, mártires y pecadores. Los caballeros de San Juan entre la reforma religiosa y la vida militar. In J.I. Fortea Pérez, J.E. Gelabert González, R. López Vela, E. Postigo Castellanos (a cura di), Monarquías en conflicto. Linajes y noblezas en la articulación de la Monarquía hispánica (pp. 1055-1066). Madrid : Fundación Española de Historia Moderna – Universidad de Cantabria.
Sangre de nobles, mártires y pecadores. Los caballeros de San Juan entre la reforma religiosa y la vida militar
D'Avenia F
2018-01-01
Abstract
After the fall of Rhodes in 1522, the Order of St. John needed to recover new headquarters (which were finally established in Malta in 1530) and its reputation as militia Christi. This Religion in arms had now to redraft its chivalrous ideals within the new context of the Reformation and the Catholic Renewal. However, Hospitallers met this challenge partially and late, although they represented themselves as belonging to this glorious Religion. Such a dialectic between practice and theory is proved, for example, by an apologetic book published in 1619 in Italy and Spain, as well as by unpublished instructions in the late seventeenth century directed at the chaplains providing religious support within the Order galleys. These works offer a precise view of the contrast between the rhetoric pair made of noble blood and military value (up to the extreme of martyrdom in defence of the faith), on the one hand, and the real behaviour of men whose inadequate religious education and practice was often not compatible with their mission, on the other.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
---|---|---|---|
D´Avenia-Sangre de nobles.pdf
accesso aperto
Descrizione: licenza di uso CC BY-NC-ND
Tipologia:
Versione Editoriale
Dimensione
1.61 MB
Formato
Adobe PDF
|
1.61 MB | Adobe PDF | Visualizza/Apri |
I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.