Testimony, Narrative and Image: Studies in Medieval and Franciscan History, Hagiography and Art in Memory of Rosalind B. Brooke

Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. is a former director of the Franciscan Institute and dean of its School of Franciscan Studies (2003-11). He is a specialist in the history and sources of the Franciscan movement during the 13th and 14th centuries, and is working on a book on Francis of Assisi and his early Friars for Reaktion Books (London).Michael J.P. Robson, Ph.D. (1988) lectured at the Franciscan Study Centre in Canterbury (1986-92). He has been a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, since 1992. His latest book is A Biographical Register of the Franciscans in the custody of York c.1229-1539, Boydell and Brewer (2019).

"This book will be of much use for specialists of the Friars Minor, which makes a worthy memorial to the legacy of Rosalind B. Brooke, picking up on various topics which stood close to her heart." - Krisztina Ilko, University of Oxford, in: The Medieval Review, 23.10.17

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on contributorsPublications of Rosalind B. Brooke (née Clark)IntroductionPart 1: Historiography of Rosalind B. Brooke1 Rosalind Brooke and the ‘Franciscan Question’Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M.2 La rivoluzionaria rivisitazione della figura di Elia di Cortona nella storiografia francescana: il fondamentale contributo di Rosalind B. Brooke nel suo Early Franciscan GovernmentMaria Pia Alberzoni3 Rosalind Brooke’s Analysis of Elias and Early Franciscan Government: The ‘Misadventure’ of a Sober and Analytical Work of Historical ScholarshipBert RoestPart 2: History4 Fraternal Twins? John of Parma, Humbert of Romans and the Joint Encyclical of 1255Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M.5 Unity and Diversity in the Franciscan Order under BonaventureJens Röhrkasten6 John Pecham, JerarchieDavid Luscombe7 “Ordo Missalis Fratrum Minorum secundum Consuetudinem Romane Curie”: un prezioso codice del secolo XIII/XIV dall’Italia agli Stati UnitiLuigi Pellegrini8 William Holme, medicus, OFM (fl. 1380–1415)Peter Murray JonesPart 3: Hagiographical Sources9 From Simplicitas to Sapientia: Anthony of Padua in the Context of Thirteenth-Century FranciscanismMaria Teresa Dolso10 A Profile of the Friars Minor in the Compilatio Assisiensis and the De adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam: Some Comparisons and ContrastsMichael J.P. Robson11 Saint Francis of Assisi and Franciscan Saints in Italian Preaching: From the Thirteenth to the Beginning of the Fourteenth CenturyAndré VauchezPart 4: Art12 Art and History in Early Olivian ExegesisDavid Burr13 Who was Francis in the Thirteenth Century? An Iconographical InquiryWilliam R. Cook14 The Franciscans in the Commentary Illustrations of the Gulbenkian and Abingdon ApocalypsesNigel Morgan15 Alter Christus, Patriarcha Pauperum, Poverello: Bernardine of Siena and Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Images of Saint FrancisKathleen Giles ArthurBibliographyIndex