Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life: Essays in Honor of John V. Fleming

CONTENTS......Page 6
Editors\' Introduction......Page 8
Contributors......Page 14
Preface: A Literary Apostolate: John Fleming and the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages (D. Vance Smith)......Page 18
PART ONE FRANCISCAN EXEGESIS......Page 24
Francis of Assisi, Deacon? An Examination of the Claims of the Earliest Franciscan Sources 1229–1235 (Michael F. Cusato)......Page 26
Tobit\'s Dog and the Dangers of Literalism: William Woodford O.F.M. as Critic of Wycliffi  te Exegesis (Alastair Minnis)......Page 58
PART TWO STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS......Page 70
Franciscan Learning: University Education and Biblical Exegesis (William J. Courtenay)......Page 72
Using, Not Owning—Duties, Not Rights: The Consequences of Some Franciscan Perspectives on Politics (Janet Coleman)......Page 82
Langland and the Franciscans on Dominium (Lawrence M. Clopper)......Page 102
PART THREE FRANCISCAN CRITICS AND CRITICS OF THE FRANCISCANS......Page 120
William of St. Amour\'s De periculis novissimorum temporum: A False Start to Medieval Antifraternalism? (G. Geltner)......Page 122
History as Prophecy: Angelo Clareno\'s Chronicle as a Spiritual Franciscan Apocalypse (David Burr)......Page 136
Two Views of John XXII as a Heretical Pope (Patrick Nold)......Page 156
Kicking the Habit: The Campaign Against the Friars in a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia (Penn Szittya)......Page 176
\"Si sind all glichsner\": Antifraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German Literature (Geoffrey Dipple)......Page 194
PART FOUR FRANCISCAN LEGACIES......Page 210
Imitatio Francisci: The Infl uence of Francis of Assisi on Late Medieval Religious Life (Lester K. Little)......Page 212
Louis IX: Preaching to Franciscan and Dominican Brothers and Nuns (William Chester Jordan)......Page 236
Preaching as Playwriting: A Semi-Dramatic Sermon of the Fift eenth Century (Katherine L. Jansen)......Page 254
Index......Page 266