Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450

Constant J. Mews is Professor within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University, Australia.Anna Welch (Ph.D. 2011, University of Divinity) works in the History of the Book department at State Library Victoria (Melbourne). Her first monograph is based on her doctoral research: Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria (2015).

• ContentsAbbreviationsList of illustrationsIntroductionContributorsPoverty and the Rule of FrancisConstant J. MewsApostolic ideals in the mendicant transformation of the thirteenth century: From sine proprio to holy povertyRiccardo SaccentiThe decree Exivi de Paradiso and its implications for mendicant povertyCampion Murray ofmThe understanding of paupertas in The Tree of the Crucified Life of JesusAntonio MontefuscoReligious dissent in the vernacular: The literature of the Fraticelli in late fourteenth-century FlorenceDevotional CulturesAnna WelchFrom preacher to mystic: Changing interpretations of Francis of Assisi in thirteenth-century sourcesClaire RenkinA Feast of Love: Visual images of Francis of Assisi and Mary Magdalen and late medieval mendicant devotionEarl Jeffrey RichardsThe prayer Anima Christi and Dominican popular devotion: Late medieval examples of the interface between high ecclesiastical culture and popular pietyMarika RäsänenSt Thomas Aquinas’ relics and lay devotion in the fourteenth century southern ItalyPreaching PovertyAnne HollowayPerforming poverty: the vices and virtues of the Order of PreachersJohnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen"Beggars in silky robes and palaces": Friars Preachers preaching and practising poverty in medieval Northern EuropeLidia NegoiIdeas of poverty in late medieval Dominican preaching materials from Catalonia and AragonPeter Howard"Where the poor of Christ are cherished": Poverty in the preaching of Antoninus of FlorenceList of