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

• Superior document: The medieval Franciscans, v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Fleming, John V.; Cusato, Michael F.; Geltner, Guy, 1974-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Franciscans ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Essays were presented at a conference honoring John V. Fleming at Princeton University on Apr. 21-22, 2004.

The essays in this volume were presented at a conference honoring John V. Fleming at Princeton University on April 21-22, 2004. The aim of the conference was to revisit Fleming's 1977 book, An Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages, from a number of different perspectives, including social, religious and literary history, as well as art, exegesis, political thought and the history of education. A prominent, but not exclusive, theme of the contributions is the distinction between "defenders" and "critics" of medieval Franciscanism. Recent scholarship has shown that the dividing line between medieval defenders and critics of Franciscan life was not as sharp or as clear as had once been thought. This, more nuanced approach to medieval Franciscanism is a reflection of the many scholarly developments that have occurred since - and as a result of - Fleming's volume. The present work offers a selection of current approaches to the question.

Table of 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.