Testimony, narrative and image: studies in medieval and Franciscan history, hagiography and art in memory of Rosalind B. Brooke

Abstract

"This volume unites a team of distinguished scholars from France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the USA to celebrate Rosalind B. Brooke's immense contribution to Franciscan studies over the last 60 years. It is divided into four sections, beginning with an appraisal of Dr Brooke's influence. The second section contains a series of historical studies and expressions of the Franciscan spirit. Hagiographical studies occupy the third section, reflecting the friars' ministry and the thirst for the renewal of the Franciscan vision. The fourth part explores the image of the friars' ministry. These innovative studies reflect new insights into and interpretations of Franciscan life in the Middle Ages. Contributors are (n order of appearance) Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M., Maria Pia Alberzoni, Bert Roest, Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., Jens Röhrkasten, David Luscombe, Luigi Pellegrini. Peter Murray Jones, Maria Teresa Dolso, Michael J.P. Robson, André Vauchez, David Burr, William R. Cook, Nigel Morgan, and Kathleen Giles Arthur"--

Contents

Rosalind Brooke and the 'Franciscan question' / Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. -- "Ordo missalis Fratrum Minorum secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie" : un prezioso codice del secolo XIII/XIV dall'Italia agli Stati Uniti / Luigi Pellegrini -- From simplicitas to sapientia : Anthony of Padua in the context of thirteenth-century Franciscanism / Maria Teresa Dolso.