Franciscans and Preaching

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Contents

Editorial Note

Foreword

Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word

SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING

Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement

Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach

A Theology of Preaching – A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano

SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING

Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae

Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure’s Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis

Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons

Matthew of Aquasparta’s Sermons on Theology

Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour

SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING

Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons

Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany

Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century

SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING

Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other

Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480)

Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid

SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING

“Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus”: The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition

Preaching by Image: The Counter Façade of the Basilica of St. Francis

The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher

Contributors

Illustration Section

Index of People and Places

Index of Texts and Themes