Research Catalog

Title

Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi : from the middle ages to the present / edited by Constant J. Mews and Claire Renkin.

Publication

Mulgrave, N.S.W. : Broughton Publishing, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Renkin, Claire (Claire Frances)
• Mews, C. J.
• Boyd, Arthur, 1920-1999

Description

vii, 416 p; 24 cm.

Subject

• Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253 > Influence
• Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 > Influence
• Franciscans > Influence
• Christian saints > Italy > Assisi > Influence
• Monastic and religious life > Italy > Assisi > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-410) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. In the eyes of each other : Clare and Francis of Assisi / Jacques Dalarun -- 2. Turpe lucrum, stercus, capitale : the evolving relationship of the Friars Minor to money in the thirteenth century / Michael F. Cusata -- 3. The enigma of 'Lady poverty' : beautiful ideal or loathsome lady? / Anne M. Scott -- 4. The founder as alter Christus : communal identities among the Order of Friars Minor and Order of Preachers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Anne Holloway and Anna Welch -- 5. Matthew Paris, Brother William and the Franciscans / Judith Collard -- 6. Poverty and Franciscan identity in the Form of life of Clare of Assisi / Peta Hills -- 7. Observing the Holy Gospel : obedience in the Clarissan formae vitae (1212-53) / Julie Ann Smith -- 8. Clarist double monasteries in Central Europe / Robert Curry -- 9. Franciscan thinking on charity, practical theology, and salvation 1275-1320 / Cal Ledsham and Constant J. Mews -- 10. Ambitions of faith : mystical instruction from Gilbert of Tournai to Isabelle of France / Rina Lahav -- 11. Interpreting Francis among the urban lay religious groups of thirteenth-century North-Eastern France / Janice Pinder -- 12. From Assisi to Melbourne : Fra Pietro Teutonico's Nativity; Crucifixion reliquary diptych in the National Gallery of Victoria / Hugh Hudson -- 13. Altera Magdalena? Clare as sponsa Christi and mirror imagery in a German fifteenth-century Life of St Clare / Claire Renkin -- 14. The Franciscan Brotherhood : reform, division and the observant path to the antipodes / Maurice Carmody -- 15. The change of heart in John Pili of Fano, Capuchin Friar / Patrick Colbourne -- 16. Fr Patrick Bonaventure Geoghegan : a Franciscan in early Melbourne / Jim Fitzgerald and Dianne Reilly -- 17. Poor Clares : from Australia to bandit territory / Briege O'Hare -- 18. Following Francis in a contemporary interfaith experience / Josephine Rush -- 19. Seriously joyful : St Francis as the basis for the spirituality of contemporary Anglican tertiaries / Ted Witham -- 20. Medieval art and legend and the Arthur Boyd 'St Francis' tapestries / Ursula Betka and Margaret Pont.

ISBN

• 9780980663464 (pbk)
• 0980663466 (pbk)

OCLC

• 664802503
• SCSB-10828838

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library