Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of The Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam. His research focuses on the social, environmental, and religious history of the late Middle Ages, especially in an urban context. He has published The Medieval Prison: A Social History (2008); William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum (2008), and Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life (co-edited with Michael F. Cusato; 2009).

...an important book. It provides us with a significant corrective to an over-reliance on evidence from literary and theological works in understanding criticisms of the friars in the Middle Ages, and Geltner's argument for the contribution of the friars' own historiography to the development of the antifraternal tradition offers a whole new perspective on that process. Most important, however, Geltner brings this material together in a call for a comprehensive revision of how we think about antifraternalism.

• PART I: WORDS AND DEEDS: THE WORLD AGAINST THE FRIARS ; PART II: DEEDS AND WORDS: THE FRIARS AGAINST THEMSELVES

Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of The Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam. His research focuses on the social, environmental, and religious history of the late Middle Ages, especially in an urban context. He has published The Medieval Prison: A Social History (2008); William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum (2008), and Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life (co-edited with Michael F. Cusato; 2009).

...an important book. It provides us with a significant corrective to an over-reliance on evidence from literary and theological works in understanding criticisms of the friars in the Middle Ages, and Geltner's argument for the contribution of the friars' own historiography to the development of the antifraternal tradition offers a whole new perspective on that process. Most important, however, Geltner brings this material together in a call for a comprehensive revision of how we think about antifraternalism.

• PART I: WORDS AND DEEDS: THE WORLD AGAINST THE FRIARS ; PART II: DEEDS AND WORDS: THE FRIARS AGAINST THEMSELVES

Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of The Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam. His research focuses on the social, environmental, and religious history of the late Middle Ages, especially in an urban context. He has published The Medieval Prison: A Social History (2008); William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum (2008), and Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life (co-edited with Michael F. Cusato; 2009).

...an important book. It provides us with a significant corrective to an over-reliance on evidence from literary and theological works in understanding criticisms of the friars in the Middle Ages, and Geltner's argument for the contribution of the friars' own historiography to the development of the antifraternal tradition offers a whole new perspective on that process. Most important, however, Geltner brings this material together in a call for a comprehensive revision of how we think about antifraternalism.

• PART I: WORDS AND DEEDS: THE WORLD AGAINST THE FRIARS ; PART II: DEEDS AND WORDS: THE FRIARS AGAINST THEMSELVES