Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450 (Hardcover)

Contents Abbreviations List of illustrations Introduction Contributors Poverty and the Rule of Francis Constant J. Mews Apostolic ideals in the mendicant transformation of the thirteenth century: From sine proprio to holy poverty Riccardo Saccenti The decree Exivi de Paradiso and its implications for mendicant poverty Campion Murray ofm The understanding of paupertas in The Tree of the Crucified Life of Jesus Antonio Montefusco Religious dissent in the vernacular: The literature of the Fraticelli in late fourteenth-century Florence Devotional Cultures Anna Welch From preacher to mystic: Changing interpretations of Francis of Assisi in thirteenth-century sources Claire Renkin A Feast of Love: Visual images of Francis of Assisi and Mary Magdalen and late medieval mendicant devotion Earl Jeffrey Richards The prayer Anima Christi and Dominican popular devotion: Late medieval examples of the interface between high ecclesiastical culture and popular piety Marika Rasanen St Thomas Aquinas’ relics and lay devotion in the fourteenth century southern Italy Preaching Poverty Anne Holloway Performing poverty: the vices and virtues of the Order of Preachers Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen "Beggars in silky robes and palaces": Friars Preachers preaching and practising poverty in medieval Northern Europe Lidia Negoi Ideas of poverty in late medieval Dominican preaching materials from Catalonia and Aragon Peter Howard "Where the poor of Christ are cherished": Poverty in the preaching of Antoninus of Florence List of Contributors Index