Steven J. McMichael, O.F.M. Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Consolation Province (USA). He is an associate professor of theology at the University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN). He has worked on polemical literature of the Late Middle Ages and currently researches and writes on medieval preaching and theology on the resurrection. His most recent publication is The Glory of Paradise: Risen Life in the Easter Octave Sermons of Bernadino da Siena (2016).Katherine Wrisley Shelby holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Boston College, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of St. Bonaventure’s theology of grace and currently teaches courses in Philosophy and Theology to undergraduates. She is the coeditor of Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium (2017) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (2018), and she has published several articles on Franciscan theology.

"Si può dire che questo volume rappresenta una buona raccolta che segnala la documentazione critica su alcuni autori francescani medioevali che trattano della Vergine maria. Ciò è corredato da una estesa bibliografia (441-53) utile per una visione generale delle diverse produzioni letterarie in ambito francescano e non solo". Stefano Cecchin, in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, June 2020.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: The Foundations of Franciscan Marian Reflection: Francis, Clare, and Anthony1 The Virgin Mary in the Writings of Francis and Clare of AssisiMichael W. Blastic2 Maria Oliva Benedicta: A Reflection on the Mariology of Anthony of Padua/LisbonLuciano BertazzoPart 2: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Theology3 Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure’s Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the AnnunciationJ. Isaac Goff4 The Mariology of Conrad of Saxony (d. 1279) as Presented in His Speculum Beatae Maria VirginisChristopher Shorrock5 Mary and the Body of God: Servasanctus of Faenza and the Psalter of CreationRachel Fulton Brown6 Marian Devotion in Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Tertiary and Franciscan MysticMarzia Ceschia7 ‘Fired France for Mary without Spot’: John Duns Scotus and the Immaculate ConceptionMary Beth Ingham8 Francis of Meyronnes and the Immaculate ConceptionChristiaan KappesPart 3: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Vita Christi Tradition9 ‘Beholding’ the Virgin Mary in Imitatio Mariae: Meditationes vitae Christi’s Spiritual Exercises for Sacramental Seeing of the AnnunciationLeah Marie Buturain10 A Medieval Franciscan Meditation on the Mother of JesusPacelli Millane, OSCPart 4: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Art11 Cimabue’s Santa Maria degli Angeli at AssisiHolly Flora12 Reflecting on Mary: The Splendor of the Madonna in the Lower Church of AssisiDarrelyn GunzburgPart 5: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Preaching13 The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of RegensburgAlessia Francone14 The Virgin Mary is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da SienaSteven J. McMichael15 The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450)Kimberly Rivers16 John of Capistrano and the Virgin Mary: Preliminary Research on the Marian SermonsFilippo SeddaBibliographyIndex

Steven J. McMichael, O.F.M. Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Consolation Province (USA). He is an associate professor of theology at the University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN). He has worked on polemical literature of the Late Middle Ages and currently researches and writes on medieval preaching and theology on the resurrection. His most recent publication is The Glory of Paradise: Risen Life in the Easter Octave Sermons of Bernadino da Siena (2016).Katherine Wrisley Shelby holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Boston College, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of St. Bonaventure’s theology of grace and currently teaches courses in Philosophy and Theology to undergraduates. She is the coeditor of Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium (2017) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (2018), and she has published several articles on Franciscan theology.

"Si può dire che questo volume rappresenta una buona raccolta che segnala la documentazione critica su alcuni autori francescani medioevali che trattano della Vergine maria. Ciò è corredato da una estesa bibliografia (441-53) utile per una visione generale delle diverse produzioni letterarie in ambito francescano e non solo". Stefano Cecchin, in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, June 2020.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: The Foundations of Franciscan Marian Reflection: Francis, Clare, and Anthony1 The Virgin Mary in the Writings of Francis and Clare of AssisiMichael W. Blastic2 Maria Oliva Benedicta: A Reflection on the Mariology of Anthony of Padua/LisbonLuciano BertazzoPart 2: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Theology3 Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure’s Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the AnnunciationJ. Isaac Goff4 The Mariology of Conrad of Saxony (d. 1279) as Presented in His Speculum Beatae Maria VirginisChristopher Shorrock5 Mary and the Body of God: Servasanctus of Faenza and the Psalter of CreationRachel Fulton Brown6 Marian Devotion in Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Tertiary and Franciscan MysticMarzia Ceschia7 ‘Fired France for Mary without Spot’: John Duns Scotus and the Immaculate ConceptionMary Beth Ingham8 Francis of Meyronnes and the Immaculate ConceptionChristiaan KappesPart 3: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Vita Christi Tradition9 ‘Beholding’ the Virgin Mary in Imitatio Mariae: Meditationes vitae Christi’s Spiritual Exercises for Sacramental Seeing of the AnnunciationLeah Marie Buturain10 A Medieval Franciscan Meditation on the Mother of JesusPacelli Millane, OSCPart 4: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Art11 Cimabue’s Santa Maria degli Angeli at AssisiHolly Flora12 Reflecting on Mary: The Splendor of the Madonna in the Lower Church of AssisiDarrelyn GunzburgPart 5: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Preaching13 The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of RegensburgAlessia Francone14 The Virgin Mary is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da SienaSteven J. McMichael15 The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450)Kimberly Rivers16 John of Capistrano and the Virgin Mary: Preliminary Research on the Marian SermonsFilippo SeddaBibliographyIndex

Steven J. McMichael, O.F.M. Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Consolation Province (USA). He is an associate professor of theology at the University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN). He has worked on polemical literature of the Late Middle Ages and currently researches and writes on medieval preaching and theology on the resurrection. His most recent publication is The Glory of Paradise: Risen Life in the Easter Octave Sermons of Bernadino da Siena (2016).Katherine Wrisley Shelby holds a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Boston College, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of St. Bonaventure’s theology of grace and currently teaches courses in Philosophy and Theology to undergraduates. She is the coeditor of Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium (2017) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (2018), and she has published several articles on Franciscan theology.

"Si può dire che questo volume rappresenta una buona raccolta che segnala la documentazione critica su alcuni autori francescani medioevali che trattano della Vergine maria. Ciò è corredato da una estesa bibliografia (441-53) utile per una visione generale delle diverse produzioni letterarie in ambito francescano e non solo". Stefano Cecchin, in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, June 2020.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: The Foundations of Franciscan Marian Reflection: Francis, Clare, and Anthony1 The Virgin Mary in the Writings of Francis and Clare of AssisiMichael W. Blastic2 Maria Oliva Benedicta: A Reflection on the Mariology of Anthony of Padua/LisbonLuciano BertazzoPart 2: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Theology3 Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure’s Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the AnnunciationJ. Isaac Goff4 The Mariology of Conrad of Saxony (d. 1279) as Presented in His Speculum Beatae Maria VirginisChristopher Shorrock5 Mary and the Body of God: Servasanctus of Faenza and the Psalter of CreationRachel Fulton Brown6 Marian Devotion in Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Tertiary and Franciscan MysticMarzia Ceschia7 ‘Fired France for Mary without Spot’: John Duns Scotus and the Immaculate ConceptionMary Beth Ingham8 Francis of Meyronnes and the Immaculate ConceptionChristiaan KappesPart 3: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Vita Christi Tradition9 ‘Beholding’ the Virgin Mary in Imitatio Mariae: Meditationes vitae Christi’s Spiritual Exercises for Sacramental Seeing of the AnnunciationLeah Marie Buturain10 A Medieval Franciscan Meditation on the Mother of JesusPacelli Millane, OSCPart 4: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Art11 Cimabue’s Santa Maria degli Angeli at AssisiHolly Flora12 Reflecting on Mary: The Splendor of the Madonna in the Lower Church of AssisiDarrelyn GunzburgPart 5: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Preaching13 The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of RegensburgAlessia Francone14 The Virgin Mary is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da SienaSteven J. McMichael15 The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450)Kimberly Rivers16 John of Capistrano and the Virgin Mary: Preliminary Research on the Marian SermonsFilippo SeddaBibliographyIndex