Franciscans and Preaching

Editorial Note ...ix; Foreword; Beverly M. Kienzle ...xi; Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word; Timothy J. Johnson ...1; SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING; Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement; Michael W. Blastic ...15; Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach; Darleen Pryds ...41; A Theology of Preaching - A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano; J. A. Wayne Hellmann ...59; SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING; Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae; Timothy J. Johnson ...73; Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure's Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis; C. Colt Anderson ...91; Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure's Sunday Sermons; Nicholas W. Youmans ...115; Matthew of Aquasparta's Sermons on Theology; Joshua C. Benson... 145; Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour; Patrick Nold... 175; SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING; Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons; Alison More ...209; Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany; Stephen Mossman ...231; Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century; Michael Robson ...273; SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING; Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other; Amanda D. Quantz ...299; Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480); Steven J. McMichael ...327; Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid; Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique... 353; SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING; "Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus": The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition; Bert Roest ...383; Preaching by Image: The Counter Facade of the Basilica of St. Francis; Jay M. Hammond ...413; The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher; Francesco Lucchini ...451; Contributors ...485; Illustration Section ...491; Index of People and Places ...519; Index of Texts and Themes ...523