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Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 10 Acknowledgements 14 Note on Terms and Names 16 Abbreviations 18 Introduction 22 Chapter One: Change and Continuity: The Order from its Origins to 1467 26 I. Reform and History 26 II. The Vision of the Past 29 III. The Origins of the Mercedarian Order 31 IV. Growth and Development, 1235–72 37 V. The First Mercedarian Observance 39 VI. The Redemption of Captives 46 VII. Confraters, Beatas and Nuns 50 VIII. The Rise of the Clerics, 1272–1301 52 IX. Crisis and Mutation, 1301–17 54 X. A New Constitution, 1317–30 57 XI. The Albertine Observance 59 XII. The Structure of the Order 63 XIII. A Clericalized Order 68 XIV. Decline, Patronage and Survival, 1330–1429 70 XV. Crisis and Division, 1429–67 73 Chapter Two: New Frontiers: The Rise of Castile (1467–1561) 77 I. Conflict and Expansion 77 II. Vocation and Self-Perception 80 III. New Men 84 IV. Castile: A Vocation Consolidated 88 V. The Mercedarians and the Question of Reform 92 VI. Spectres of Reform, 1485–1515 96 VII. Humanism, Heresy and Messianism 99 VIII. America: Establishment and Expansion, 1514–35 103 IX. The Order and America: Patronage and Jurisdiction 106 X. America:

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