Project description
A look at Franciscan Custody’s economic practices
The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, established in the 13th century, secured the maintenance of the Holy Sepulchre and the friar’s presence in the Holy Land. However, the Custody remains understudied and its rich archive unexploited. The EU-funded HOLYLAB project will study the Custody’s economic organisation through its account book between 1600 and 1800, advancing current research on Franciscan practices. The project will combine an analysis of economic practices on a local, regional, and global level, with the research of the organisational structures and the mechanisms that allowed its functioning and maintenance. HOLYLAB will study the global circulation of people, money, and objects and the institutions’ organisation.
Objective
The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (Custodia Terr Sanct, established in the 13th century) is a global organization that, thanks to a complex system of alms gathering, has ensured throughout the centuries the maintenance of the Holy Sepulchre and the friars presence in the Holy Land. Despite its importance in Mediterranean History, the Custody has remained understudied, and its rich archive scarcely exploited. Inspired by recent studies on Franciscan economic thought and accounting in Mediaeval convents, and deploying concepts drawn taken from organizational studies, HOLYLAB combines an analysis of economic practices on a local, regional and global level, with a study of the organizational structures and the mechanisms that enabled the Custody to function, attain its goals, survive organizational changes and maintain legitimation. The aim of the project is to study the Custodys economic organization in the early modern period and, in so doing, to address more general issues concerning the global circulation of people, money and objects and the organization of early modern institutions. In order to do so, the projects analysis will rely on a rich and unstudied corpus of account documents issued by the Custodys headquarters the St Saviour convent in Jerusalem and its commissariats located in several Franciscan provinces. Methodologically, the project combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and bridges micro- and macro-levels of analysis by emphasising the meso-level of the organization. Thanks to the novelty of the subject, the use of unstudied account books, an interdisciplinary approach and an innovative methodology, HOLYLAB will both advance current research on Franciscan economic practices, and open new paths in research on the global circulation of people and objects, religious orders and sociology of organizations. Finally, by making available a large amount of data on the objects that circulated through the Custodys global network, their
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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