Defenders and critics of Franciscan life : essays in honor of John V. Fleming / edited by Michael F. Cusato & G. Geltner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleming, John V.

Cusato, Michael F.

Series:

Medieval Franciscans ; v. 6.

The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franciscans--Congresses.

Franciscans.

Monastic and religious life--Congresses.

Monastic and religious life.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Contents:

Editors' introduction

Preface: A literary apostolate : John Fleming and the Franciscan literature of the middle ages / D. Vance Smith

Part I: Franciscan exegesis

Francis of Assisi, deacon? : an examination of the claims of the earliest Franciscan sources, 1229-1235 / Michael F. Cusato

Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis

Part II: Students and scholars

Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay

Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman

Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. Clopper

Part III: Franciscan critics and critics of the Franciscans

William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum : a false start to medieval anti-fraternalism? / G. Geltner

History as prophecy : Angelo Clareno's chronicle as a spiritual Franciscan apocalypse / David Burr

Two views of John XXII as a heretical pope / Patrick Nold

Kicking the habit : the campaign against the friars in a fourteenth-century encyclopedia / Penn Szittya

Si Sind all Glichsner : anti-fraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German literature / Geoffrey Dipple

Part IV: Franciscan legacies

Imitatio francisci : the influence of Francis of Assisi on late medieval religious life / Lester K. Little

Louis IX : preaching to Franciscan and Dominican brothers and nuns / William Chester Jordan

Preaching as playwriting : a semi-dramatic sermon of the fifteenth century / Katherine L. Jansen.

Notes:

Essays were presented at a conference honoring John V. Fleming at Princeton University on Apr. 21-22, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004176300

9004176306

OCLC:

317778052