Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography. Contributors draw upon Moorman's diaries and his materials for a biographical register of the Franciscans in medieval England. The volume is in tune with recent developments in Franciscan history in general, with a special interest in the English province. This is exemplified by studies on Franciscan iconography; the English province's impact of the wider order; the scholastic enterprise; prosopography; economy; sermons; the application of Canon Law to the debates at the papal court; and the evolution of John Moorman's studies on St Francis and his followers.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Part I John Moorman and His Franciscan Studies
- 1. John Moorman, a Franciscan Historian
- 2. Catching the Franciscan Spirit: John Moorman and St Francis in His Student Days
- Part II The Order of Friars Minor in England
- 3. Images of Franciscans and Dominicans in a Manuscript of Alexander Nequam’s Florilegium (Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.42)
- 4. A Biographical Register of the English Province of the Greyfriars: A Sample from the Custody of York
- 5. The Economic Foundations of the Franciscan Custody of Cambridge
- 6. The Franciscans and their Graves in Medieval London
- 7. Late Medieval Franciscan Preaching in England
- Part III The Friars and the Schools
- 8. Adam Marsh at Oxford
- 9. The Theological Use of Science at the Oxford Franciscan School: Thomas Docking, Roger Bacon, and Robert Grosseteste’s Works
- 10. English Franciscans and their Influence on the Early History of the Order
- 11. Who Destroyed Assisi? The Lament of Jacopone da Todi
- 12. The Paradox of Franciscan Use of Canon Law in the Fourteenth-Century Poverty Disputes
- Appendix
- The Moorman Letters in the Archive of the Collegio San Bonaventura (Quaracchi/Grottaferrata/Rome)
- Index