The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts ...
Jotischky, Andrew![The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts in the Middle Ages](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22673255/CHSBZCOP0322673255.jpg)
The Carmelites, the only contemplative religious order to have been founded in the Crusader States, first emerged as a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, a site associated with the prophet Elijah. Soon after migrating to the West, in the mid-thirteenth century, they began to develop the geographical associations into a complex historical tradition based on the claim to have been founded by the prophet. Carmelite historical myths were fir...