Franciscan Invention of the New World

Julia McClure is a global historian interested in the history of poverty, charity and colonialism. She has specialised in the history of the Franciscans and the Spanish Atlantic. She gained her PhD at the University of Sheffield, had research fellowships at Harvard’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the European University Institute in Florence, and is now at the Centre for Global History at the University of Warwick.

• Prologue, The story.- Introduction.- Chapter One: The Landscapes of Franciscan Poverty.- Chapter Two: Feeding the Imaginative Landscape of the Franciscan Order.- Chapter Three: The Franciscan Atlantic.- Chapter Four: Franciscan landscapes of identity and violence.- Chapter Five: The New World at the End of the World.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.