Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450

ISBN-13: 9780367879587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Constant J. Mews; Anna Welch

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Since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries as reformers within the Church sought new ways of encouraging identification w

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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 Räsänen

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

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Constant J. Mews is Professor within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University, Australia.

Anna Welch (Ph.D. 2011, University of Divinity) works in the History of the Book department at State Library Victoria (Melbourne). Her first monograph is based on her doctoral research: Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria (2015).