Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction before the Council of Trent

Cover......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1. Franciscan Preaching as Religious Instruction......Page 25
A. Franciscan sermon collections from the thirteenth century......Page 30
B. Franciscan sermon cycles from the fourteenth century......Page 63
C. The Observant homiletic output in Italy......Page 76
D. The Observant homiletic output outside Italy......Page 102
E. The Conventual contribution after 1400......Page 125
F. The emerging Capuchin contribution......Page 141
2. Religious Instruction in Rules,\rRule Commentaries and Constitutions......Page 144
A. Interpreting the Regula Bullata......Page 149
B. General constitutions......Page 164
C. Provincial constitutions and convent statutes......Page 188
D. Rules and regulations for the Poor Clares......Page 193
E. Rules and regulations for Tertiaries......Page 215
3. Rules and Treatises for Novice Training......Page 230
A. The emergence of novice training treatises......Page 233
B. Late medieval developments......Page 246
C. Novice training in the budding Capuchin order......Page 250
4. Franciscan Catechisms......Page 254
A. Early Franciscan catechistic texts......Page 265
B. Franciscan catechisms in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy......Page 274
C. Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century catechisms outside Italy......Page 277
D. Capuchin catechisms......Page 293
E. Religious poetry as a medium for catechistic instruction: Italy......Page 299
F. Religious poetry as a medium for catechistic instruction: the British Isles......Page 311
G. Franciscan religious poetry in the German and Spanish provinces......Page 325
5. Confession Handbooks......Page 338
A. Franciscan Summae......Page 339
B. Dottrine, Specula and Confessiones Generales......Page 362
C. Large Franciscan confession handbooks after ca. 1450......Page 371
D. Interrogatoria......Page 377
6. Instructory Works for the Mass and the\rDivine Office......Page 380
A. Instruction manuals for the clergy......Page 384
B. Instruction manuals for the laity......Page 390
7. Works of Religious Edification......Page 398
A. Edificatory manuals......Page 399
B. Spiritual letters......Page 468
C. Texts of passion devotion......Page 496
D. Encompassing handbooks of religious education......Page 539
E. Political education......Page 555
8. Prayer Guides......Page 564
A. Franciscan prayer guides in the thirteenth century......Page 566
B. Late medieval Franciscan prayer guides......Page 573
C. Early Capuchin prayer guides......Page 580
Bibliography of secondary sources......Page 585
Index of authors......Page 647
Index of works......Page 671