Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy

William R. Cook, Ph.D. (1971) in History from Cornell University, is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, Geneseo. He has published a brief biography of St Francis (Litrugical Press, 1989) as well as two books on early Franciscan art, most recently Images of St Francis of Assisi (Leo S. Olschki, 1999).

'Rarely is an edited volume so consistent in the tenor and quality of the scholarship. The only criticism of the volume is that the essays leave the reader thirsty for more. Perhaps this suggests that the interest in Franciscan art is so keen, it might be worthy of a second volume.'Michelle Erhardt, The Medieval Review, 2005

• Introduction William R. CrookList of illustrationsNotes on Contributors‘In loco tutissimo et firmissimo’: The Tomb of St. Francis in History, Legend and Art Donal CooperThe Pilgrim’s Progress: Reinterpreting the Trecento Fresco Programme in the Lower Chrich at Assisi Janet RobsonProphecy in Stone: The Exterior Façade pf the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi Daniel T. MichaelsCimabue at Assisi: The Virgin, the ‘Song of Songs’, and the Gift of Love Marilyn Aronberg LavinThe Date of the St. Francis cycle in the Upper Chruch of San Francesco at Assisi: the Evidence of Copies and considerations of Method Thomas de WesselowThe Beholder as Witness: The ‘Crib at Greccio’ from the Upper church of San Francesco, Assisi and Franciscan Influence on Late Medieval Art in Italy. Beth A. Mulvaney‘I Speak not yet of Proof’: Dante and the Art of Assisi Ronald B. HerzmanThe Representation of post humous Miracles of St Francis of Assisi in Thirteenth-Century Italian Painting Gregory W. Ahlquist and William R. CookCooperation and conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi chapel of Santa Croce Nancy M. ThompsonIndices