Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission c. 1220–1650: Cum scientia sit donum Dei, armatura ad defendendam sanctam fidem catholicam…

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Contents

Preface

1 Francis of Assisi and the Pursuit of Learning

Introduction

Francis as the Enemy of Science? Images from the Hagiographical Tradition

Francis Accepting of Science? The Letter to Anthony of Padua

Francis the Gifted Idiota?

The Necessity of Studies in an Apostolic Order

The Place of Studies in the ‘Authentic’ Writings

Tentative Conclusions

2 The Franciscan School System: Re-assessing the Early Evidence

Introduction

Francis’s Ambivalence towards Learning

The Stimulation of Learning by Franciscan Minister Generals

Early Franciscan Study Houses or Studia Generalia with a Lectorate Program

Additional Anecdotal Evidence Concerning Lectors and Lectorate Training

The Evidence from the Pre-Narbonne Constitutions

Conclusion

3 Religious Life in the Franciscan School Network (13th Century)

The Emergence of a Franciscan School Network

Franciscan Novice Training and Spiritual Formation

Religious Formation after the Noviciate

Routines of Student Life and Study Organization

Spiritual Concerns in Sermons Addressed to Students and Teachers

The Collationes in Hexaemeron as a Franciscan Metanarrative of Religious Learning

Conclusion

4 Mendicant School Exegesis

Introduction

Early Mendicant Exegesis

Discussing Exegetical Method

Correcting the Biblical Text

Exegesis and the Impact of Joachimism

Later Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century Developments

The Decline of Mendicant Exegesis?

Conclusion

5 ‘Franciscan Augustinianism’: Musings about Labels and Late Medieval School Formation

The Problem of a ‘Franciscan School’

Franciscan Augustinianism?

Augustinian Themes?

Conclusion

6 Franciscan School Networks, c. 1450–1650: A Provisional Sketch

The ‘Conventual’ Franciscan School Network in the Fifteenth Century

Observant Challenges

Conventual and Observant Positions on Education and the Pursuit of Degrees

The Conventual ‘Loss’ of Paris and Other Studia Generalia

Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Conventual Answers

Observant Continuities and Transformations

The Place of Studies among the Early Capuchins

Afterword

7 Franciscan Urban Preachers in Defense of Catholicism in the Low Countries c. 1520–1568

Introduction

Catechisms and Devotional Works

Polemical Works

Sermons

Conclusion

8 Franciscan Missionaries in the North of the Dutch Republic (c. 1600–1680)

Introduction

Franciscans and the Rise of Protestantism in the Northern Low Countries

The Franciscan Mission in the North

Franciscan Missionary Reports

Conflicts in the Catholic Camp

Epilogue

Name Index

Place and Subject Index