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Title Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life : Essays in Honor of John V. Fleming / edited by Michael F. Cusato & G. Geltner
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages)
Series The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 ; v. 6
Medieval Franciscans ; v. 6.
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 -- William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum : a false start to medieval anit-fraternalism? / G. Geltner -- Part III: Franciscan critics and critics of theGranciscans -- History as prophecy : Angelo Clareno's chronicle as a spiritual Franciscan apocalypse / David Burr -- 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
Summary The essays in this volume present a fresh approach to the different and shifting ways that the Franciscan Order and its apostlolic activities were perceived - positively and negatively - by men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Notes Essays were presented at a conference honoring John V. Fleming at Princeton University on Apr. 21-22, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Franciscans -- Congresses
SUBJECT Franciscans fast
Subject Monastic and religious life -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Monastic and religious life
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Fleming, John V.
Cusato, Michael F.
Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974-
LC no. 2009012414
ISBN 9789047429746
9047429745
9004176306
9789004176300
1282401432
9781282401433
9786612401435
6612401435