Since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries as reformers within the Church sought new ways of encouraging identification with Christ. Drawing on history, literature and visual arts, it explores how the orders continued to transform religious life into the time of the renaissance, and considers the paradoxical tension between voluntary poverty as a way of emulating Christ and involuntary poverty as situation demanding a response from those with the means to help the poor.
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Contents
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Introduction
Contributors
Poverty and the Rule of Francis
Constant J. Mews
Apostolic ideals in the mendicant transformation of the thirteenth century:
From sine proprio to holy poverty
Riccardo Saccenti
The decree Exivi de Paradiso and its implications for mendicant poverty
Campion Murray ofm
The understanding of paupertas in The Tree of the Crucified Life of Jesus
Antonio Montefusco
Religious dissent in the vernacular: The literature of the Fraticelli in late fourteenth-century Florence
Devotional Cultures
Anna Welch
From preacher to mystic: Changing interpretations of Francis of Assisi in thirteenth-century sources
Claire Renkin
A Feast of Love: Visual images of Francis of Assisi and Mary Magdalen and late medieval mendicant devotion
Earl Jeffrey Richards
The prayer Anima Christi and Dominican popular devotion: Late medieval examples of the interface between high ecclesiastical culture and popular piety
Marika Räsänen
St Thomas Aquinas' relics and lay devotion in the fourteenth century southern Italy
Preaching Poverty
Anne Holloway
Performing poverty: the vices and virtues of the Order of Preachers
Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
"Beggars in silky robes and palaces": Friars Preachers preaching and practising poverty in medieval Northern Europe
Lidia Negoi
Ideas of poverty in late medieval Dominican preaching materials from Catalonia and Aragon
Peter Howard
"Where the poor of Christ are cherished": Poverty in the preaching of Antoninus of Florence
List of Contributors
Index
