Description:

Franciscan Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University.  It discusses Franciscan matters such as: history, philosophy, theology, and art and culture.

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Table of Contents:

The Codex brevior: For the Total Study of the Total Object

Jacques Dalarun

The Nest of the Silver-Winged Dove: The Transmutation of Sacred Space at San Damiano in Assisi and the Eucharistic Culture of the Poor Clares

Michael Shane Harless

Bonaventure’s Reception of Avicenna’s Psychology

Carl A. Vater

Making an Entrance: Queen Marie of Brabant, Patterns of Familial Patronage, and the Abbey of Longchamp

Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Erica Nunn-Kinias and Sean L. Field

The Conciliatory Strategy of Jean de Roquetaillade’s Apocalyptic Alchemy, 1349–50

Samuel MacPhee

Matthew of Agrigento: a Sicilian Bishop Between Royal Power, Urban Consortia, and

Ecclesiastical Hierarchies (1442–1445)

Antonio Mursia

The Bosnian Vicariate in the Formative Phase of the Franciscan Observance: A Neglected Cradle?

Pawel Cholewicki

Framing the History of Witchcraft in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Peculiar Episode in the Life of the Bonaventure Scholar Benedetto Bonelli, OFM Ref (1704–1783)

Bert Roest

How Metaphors Make a Martyr: The Franciscan Narrations on the Death of Fr. Silvester Padberg OFM (1906-1938)

Patrick Felix Krüger and Knut Martin Stünkel

The Drinking Bowl of St. Francis of Assisi in the Franciscan Museum DE MINDERE in Sint-Truiden (Belgium)

Jeroen Reyniers and Mark Van Strydonck

Book Reviews

About the Authors