Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Names,Translations,and Transliterations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I Acquired the Martyrs": Bishops, Kings, and the Victory of the Martyrs -- Chapter 2. "Do Not Fear Those Who Kill the Body": The Desire for Martyrdom in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 3. "To Sustain the Frail": Franciscan Evangelization in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 4. "Their Blood Has Been Spilled Everywhere": Evangelization, Martyrdom, and Christian Triumphalism in the Early Fourteenth Century -- Chapter 5. "The Infidels Learned Nothing": Poverty, Rejection of the World, and the Creation of the Franciscan Passio -- Chapter 6. "For the Damnation of Infidels": Martyrdom and History in the Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Ministers-General -- Epilogue. The Afterlife of the Martyrs Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
"This book is about the importance of martyrdom to Franciscans during the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher