Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life

Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. is Director of the Franciscan Institute and Dean of the School of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University in New York State. He is a specialist on the history of the Franciscan Order in the Middle Ages, with particular expertise in the contexualization of the Franciscan sources of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries and the role played by apocalypticism in Franciscan identity.G. Geltner is a Lecturer in Medieval History at University College, Oxford. He has recently published William of Saint Amour’s De Periculis Novissimorum Temporum: A Critical Edition, Translation and Introduction (2008) and The Medieval Prison: A Social History (2008). He is currently writing a social history of medieval antifraternalism.

• Editors’ IntroductionContributorsPreface: A Literary Apostolate: John Fleming and the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages D. Vance SmithPart One Franciscan ExegesisFrancis of Assisi, Deacon? An Examination of the Claims of the Earliest Franciscan Sources 1229-1235 Michael F. CusatoTobit’s Dog and the Dangers of Literalism: William Woodford O.F. M. as Critic of Wycliffite Exegesis Alastair MinnisPart Two Student and ScholarsFranciscan Learning: University Education and biblical Exegesis William J. CourtenayUsing, Not Owning-Duties, Not Rights: The Consequences of Some Franciscan Perspectives on politics Janet ColemanLangland and the Franciscans on Dominium, Lawrence M. ClopperPart Three Franciscan Critics and Critics of The FranciscansWilliam of St. Amour’s De periculis novissimorum temporum: A False Start to Medieval Antifraternalism? G. GeltnerHistory as Prophecy: Angelo Clareno’s Chronicle as a Spiritual Franciscan Apocalypse David BurrTwo Views of John XXII as a Heretical pope Patrick NoldKicking the Habit: The Campaign Against the friars in a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia Penn Szittya“Si sind all glichsner”: Antifraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German Literature Geoffrey DipplePart Four Franciscan LegaciesImitatio Francisci the influence of Francis of Assisi on Late Medieval Religious Life Lester K. LittleLouis IX: Preaching to Franciscan and Dominican Brothers and Nuns William Chester JordanPreaching as playwriting: A Semi-Dramatic Sermon of the Fifteenth Century Katherine L. JansenIndex