Abstract

RAMIREZ MENDEZ, Jessica. The new regular orders for men of the Reform and the Catholic Monarchy, 16^th century. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.174, pp.1-29.  Epub Sep 25, 2023. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v44i174.944.

The new male regular orders emanating from the Reformation, the object of study of this article, are those that were born as part of the Catholic reformist impulse in the 16th century. They tried to respond to the needs of the time that made them arise. This text deals jointly with the thirteen Reform movements that managed to formalize themselves as male religious orders in the 16th century: nine Clerks Regular (Theatines, Clerks Regular of the Good Jesus, Barnabites, Somascans, Jesuits, Clerks Regular of the Mother of God, Camillians, Caracciolini y Scolopi), two Mendicants (Capuchins and Discalced Carmelites) and two Hospitallers (Brothers Hospitallers and Hipolitos). Despite the innovation represented by these new religious institutes, as well as the influential presence they had at the dawn of modernity, few studies have analyzed them together. In this regard, in the following pages I will expose the birth of such regular orders for men of the Reformation in general. I will specify what they were and what their charisma was, to then attend to their link with the monarchies. I will exemplify such associations from those that originated in the Hispanic Crown without leaving aside its overseas territories.

Keywords : New religious orders; Clerks Regular; Hospitallers; Mendicants; Catholic Reform.