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Title Franciscans and preaching : every miracle from the beginning of the world came about through words / edited by Timothy J. Johnson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 ; v. 7
Contents Foreword / Beverly M. Kienzle -- Introduction: The Franciscan fascination with the word / Timothy J. Johnson -- Preaching in the early Franciscan movement / Michael W. Blastic -- Franciscan lay women and the charism to preach / Darleen Pryds -- Theology of preaching, a theology of transformation: The life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano / J.A. Wayne Hellmann -- Franciscan bodies and souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on scripture, preaching, and the cura corporis / cura animae / Timothy J. Johnson -- Polemical preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure's use of Paul as a forerunner of Francis / C. Colt Anderson -- Haec visio rapit: mystic love and the erotic in Bonaventure's Sunday sermons / Nicholas W. Youmans -- Matthew of Aquasparta's sermons on theology / Joshua C. Benson -- Poverty, history, and liturgy in a sermon work of Bertrand de la Tour / Patrick Nold -- Gracious women seeking glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan sermons / Alison More -- Preaching on St. Francis in medieval Germany / Stephen Mossman -- Sermons preached to the Friars Minor in the thirteenth century / Michael Robson -- Focus on the family: Bernardino da Siena on the common good and the nefarious other / Amanda D. Quantz -- Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and his sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (c. 1480) / Steven J. McMichael -- Fifteenth-century Franciscan preachers in Castile: the example of Valladolid / Francisco Javier Rojo Alique -- "Ne effluat in multiloquium et habeatur honerosus": the art of preaching in the Franciscan tradition / Bert Roest -- Preaching by image: the counter façade of the Basilica of St. Francis / Jay M. Hammond -- Making of a legend: the reliquary of the tongue and the representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a preacher / Francesco Lucchini
Summary Francis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement which was fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. Franciscans and Preaching offers the first extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
SUBJECT Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 fast
Subject Franciscans
SUBJECT Franciscans fast
Subject Preaching.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Preaching.
Preaching
Franciscanen.
Verkondiging.
Wonderen.
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Timothy J
ISBN 9004231307
9789004231306
9781283955300
128395530X