{"title":"Le vite quattrocentesche di s. Bernardino da Siena. Vol. 3: Il canone agiografico di San Bernardino (post 1460) ed. by Daniele Solvi (review)","authors":"Eszter Konrád","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The Sienese Bernardino Albizeschi (1380-1444), the acclaimed Franciscan preacher, theologian and missionary was a key figure in the promulgation of the Observant movement in Central and Northern Italy. His relatively quick canonization only six years after his death was the result of the joint efforts of the Republic of Siena, princes and signori from different parts of Europe and the Franciscans (Conventuals and Observants alike), including Giovanni da Capestrano, general vicar of the Cismontan Observant family (1443-1446, 1449-1452), who, among several other tasks related to the canonization, was active in the registration of the miracles of his predecessor. A number of sources testify to his veneration in Central Europe that sprang up immediately after his death, many of which can directly be associated with Giovanni da Capestrano’s activity in the region, and which increased further after Bernardino’s canonization in 1450.191 In Hungary, Bernardino was known in already in his lifetime thanks primarily to those members of the entourage of King Sigismund who spent considerable time in those parts of Italy where the Observant preacher was active.192 The work edited by Daniele Solvi and published in 2018 is the third volume of the four-part series Le vite quattrocentesche di S. Bernardino da Siena directed together with Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli. The project developed from the idea they had shared with Claudio Leonardi","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"287 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49529824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Franciscan Movement in the Netherlands: Fifty Years in the Footsteps of Francis and Clare of Assisi","authors":"K. Pansters","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"245 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44335975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flights of Fancy: Using the Historical Imagination to Understand the Franciscan Missionaries of California","authors":"M. J. González","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"231 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41587558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium ed. by Dominic V. Monti, OFM (review)","authors":"M. Robson","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"295 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44376143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Theology of John Duns Scotus, Studies in Reformed Theology Series by Antonie Vos (review)","authors":"W. Crozier","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45949897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Sine clausura\": Unlocking the archive of the cloister of the Poor Clares St.-Elisabethsdal in Boxtel (1390-1719)","authors":"Geertrui Van Synghel","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The cloister of the Poor Clares St.-Elisabethsdal in Boxtel, in the present-day province of Brabant, the Netherlands, is one of the monasteries created during the new wave of Observant Clarissan monastic foundations in the Northern Low Countries between ca. 1460 and 1513. It was established after Wamel (1461), Haarlem (1471), Veere (1478), Delft (1475/1481), Brielle (1483), Gouda (1490) and Alkmaar (1492/1509).1 But it was not the first Clarissan settlement in what is currently the Netherlands. More than a century before, Willem van den Bossche, lord of Erp (situated in North-Brabant), enabled through his last will d.d. 28 augustus 1335 the foundation of a convent of Poor Clares in the town of ’s-Hertogenbosch,2 only a few kilometers from Boxtel. He dedicated his castle in the Hinthamerstraat to the creation of a convent of St. Clara, and in addition furnished an annual rent for its upkeep.3 In the wake of the completion of the convent church in 1344, pope Clemens VI gave official authorization for the foundation of this cloister in ’s-Hertogenbosch. The first Clarissan nuns settled there in 1359.4 They would remain","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"110 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44588339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The voice of a popular German Capuchin preacher: The Weeg-Weiser gen Himmel (1668-1679) of Geminianus von Mainz","authors":"B. Roest","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay wants to provide a preliminary introduction to, and initial contextualization of the sermons of the seventeenth-century Capuchin preacher Geminianus von Mainz (Geminianus Monacensis, ca. 16061672). To my knowledge, his literary production has never been a subject of exhaustive scholarship, even though it has been portrayed by some as a typical example of Bavarian baroque preaching from the later seventeenth century.1 More recently, his metaphorical approach to marriage has been commented upon in passing by Ulrike Strasser and Merry Wiesner-Hanks,2 whereas several culinary remarks in his sermons drew the attention of the late German gastrosopher Christoph Wagner, as can be read in the chapter on ‘Barocke Lebensfreude im Spiegel österreichischer Barockpredigten’ in his Universität der Genüsse, a modern encyclopedia of culinary taste.3 Beyond that, the sermons of Geminianus do not seem to have drawn much attention from specialists in Capuchin preaching. His works were probably overshadowed by the massive homiletic and poetic output of his near exact contemporary and fellow Capuchin friar, Prokopius Templinus. The latter’s conversion to Catholicism, as well as his literary talents and his relatively well-documented preaching career made him from the outset a much more enticing figure.4","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"171 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46184753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bl. Ladislaus of Gielniów: An Observant Franciscan Shaper of Religious and Literary Culture In Poland (with select translations of his poetry)","authors":"Paul J. Radzilowski","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Bl. Ladislaus of Gielniów (Władysław z Gielniowa, c.1440-1505) is commonly regarded as the first major literary figure in Poland to write in Polish, as well as Latin. He is also the most important writer among the friars of the early Franciscan observant reform movement in Poland, which grew vigorously there after the visit of St. Giovanni of Capestrano in 1453. There, they took on the name of “Bernardines” to distinguish them from the Conventual Franciscans, after the cult of St. Bernardino of Siena, which Capestrano promoted so strongly on all his travels.1 The Bernardine contribution to the development of the Polish literary language was significant, and the Bernardine contribution to the development of popular Polish religious culture was arguably even more fundamental.2 Ladislaus of Gielniów, twice vicar of the Polish province, and an important producer of easily accessible Polish religious song texts, may be said to exemplify both these Bernardine accomplishments in Poland.3 Despite the fact Polish language scholarship on him and his works has seen a modest revival in recent decades, not much has been published on him in English.4 This article will thus endeavor to give a general","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"53 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42713414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Franciscans and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Scotland","authors":"A. More","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In an oft-quoted letter, King James IV wrote to the Dominican Prior General that Scotland was “almost the most remote region in the world.”1 Nevertheless, as scholarship of the past fifteen years has shown, later medieval Scotland played a central role in Latin Christendom.2 Perhaps most importantly for the current study, numerous religious orders (including all branches of the Franciscan family) were active in Scotland and had significant ties to the Continent.3 Many of the same questions pertaining to Continental houses also exist for Scotland. In particular, there are many unanswered questions about the group known as the Franciscan third order. Sources indicate that there were a number of men and women known as Franciscan tertiaries in Scotland; however, unlike in the rest of Europe, this did not seem to have caused enough canonical consternation to warrant a continuous and inconsistent program of institutionalization. At the same time, Scottish sources present a particular puzzle in that they appear to indicate secular and noble tertiaries more commonly than in areas of Central and Western Europe. This is sufficient cause to examine the convoluted and (often) contradictory evidence regarding the Scottish men and women who identified as members of the Franciscan third order.","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"111 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66383696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Conforming himself to the poor\" Laity as Co-Creators of the Franciscan Tradition","authors":"D. Pryds","doi":"10.1353/frc.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frc.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53533,"journal":{"name":"Franciscan Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"31 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/frc.2019.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43689132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}