Defenders and critics of Franciscan life
Subtitle: essays in honor of John V. Fleming
By: edited by Michael F. Cusato.
Contributors: Fleming, John V.; Cusato, Michael F.
Series: The medieval Franciscans -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004176300
Subjects: Franciscans -- Congresses; Monastic and religious life -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Essays were presented at a conference honoring John V. Fleming at Princeton University on Apr. 21-22, 2004.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Editors' introduction; title: Preface: A literary apostolate : John Fleming and the Franciscan literature of the middle ages / D. Vance Smith; title: Part I: Franciscan exegesis; title: Francis of Assisi, deacon : an examination of the claims of the earliest Franciscan sources, 1229-1235 / Michael F. Cusato; title: Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis; title: Part II: Students and scholars; title: Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay; title: Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman; title: Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. Clopper; title: William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum : a false start to medieval anit-fraternalism? / G. Geltner; title: Part III: Franciscan critics and critics of theGranciscans; title: History as prophecy : Angelo Clareno's chronicle as a spiritual Franciscan apocalypse / David Burr; title: Views of John XXII as a heretical pope / Patrick Nold; title: Kicking the habit : the campaign against the friars in a fourteenth-century encyclopedia / Penn Szittya; title: Si Sind all Glichsner : anti-fraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German literature / Geoffrey Dipple; title: Part IV: Franciscan legacies; title: Imitatio francisci : the influence of Francis of Assisi on late medieval religious life / Lester K. Little; title: Louis IX : preaching to Franciscan and Dominican brothers and nuns / William Chester Jordan; title: Preaching as playwriting : a semi-dramatic sermon of the fifteenth century / Katherine l. Jansen.