‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎List of Figures

‎List of Abbreviations

‎List of Contributors

‎Editorial Note on Critical Editions and English Translations

‎Introduction

‎Part 1. The Friars’ Arrival in England and Their Dealings with Bishops and Monarchs

‎Chapter 1. Thomas of Eccleston, the Chronicler of the Friars’ Arrival in England (Robson)

‎Chapter 2. The Friars in Secular and Ecclesiastical Governance, 1224–c. 1259 (Power)

‎Chapter 3. Matthew Paris’s Chronica Majora and the Franciscans in England (Hoskin)

‎Chapter 4. The English Crown and the Franciscans in the Order’s Early History (Röhrkasten)

‎Part 2. The Rule of the Friars Minor and Its Preservation

‎Chapter 5. Elias of Cortona and the English Friars (Cusato)

‎Chapter 6. The Rule Commentary of John of Wales (Blastic)

‎Chapter 7. John Pecham’s Commentary on the Rule of the Friars Minor (Godet-Calogeras)

‎Part 3. The Friars’ Preaching and Their Celebration of the Liturgy

‎Chapter 8. Harmony, the Fiddler, Preaching and Amazon Nuns: Glosses on De musica in Bartholomew Anglicus’s De proprietatibus rerum (Loewen)

‎Chapter 9. Friars and the Preparation of Pastoral Aids (Smith)

‎Chapter 10. The Shepherd and the Flock: An Approach to the Preacher’s Role in Some Franciscan Sermon Collections (Lombardo)

‎Chapter 11. The Liturgical Manuscripts of the English Franciscans c. 1250–c. 1350 (Morgan)

‎Part 4. The Theological Luminaries of the Franciscan School

‎Chapter 12. The Scientific Basis of Robert Grosseteste’s Teaching at the Oxford Franciscan School (Panti)

‎Chapter 13. Alexander of Hales’s Theology in His Authentic Texts (Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Various Disputed Questions) (Weber)

‎Chapter 14. “Wisdom Has Built Her House; She Has Set Up Her Seven Pillars”: Roger Bacon, Franciscan Wisdom, and Conversion to the Sciences (Johnson)

‎Chapter 15. Duns Scotus’s Christology: Foundations for Franciscan Christian Humanism (Ingham)

‎Chapter 16. William of Ockham’s Ecclesiology and Political Thought (Shogimen)

‎Part 5. The Friars’ Place in the Ecclesiastical Landscape

‎Chapter 17. Thomas Cantilupe in Franciscan Memory: The Evidence of the Canonization Inquiry (Ridyard)

‎Chapter 18. Richard FitzRalph and the Franciscans: Poverty, Privileges, Polemic, 1356–1359 (Haren)

‎Chapter 19. Monuments of the Dead in Early Franciscan Churches, c. 1250–c. 1350 (Steer)

‎Chapter 20. Franciscan Nuns in England, the Minoress Foundations and Their Patrons, 1281–1367 (Campbell)

‎Chapter 21. The Franciscan Heritage in England (c. 1240–c. 1350) (Robson)

‎A Select Bibliography of the English Province

‎Index