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.
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.
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 drawn 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,
10. English
Franciscans and their influence on the early history of the order,
11. Who
destroyed Assisi?, Appendix
Michael Robson is a Fellow of St Edmunds College, Cambridge. Patrick Zutshi is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
