Description
Focusing on these individuals’ lives from childhood through death, Lavrin explores contemporaneous ideas from how to raise a boy to the friars’ training as novices, and the similarities and differences in the life experiences of lay brothers and ordained members. She discusses their sexuality to reveal the challenges and failures of religious manhood, as well as the drive behind their missionary duties, especially in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Men of God also explores the concepts and realities of martyrdom and death, significant elements in the spirituality of the mendicant friars of colonial Mexico.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496237804
Author Asunción Lavrin
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press