Poverty, Eschatology and the Medieval Church

Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., (Sorbonne, 1991), is a former director of the Franciscan Institute (St. Bonaventure University, USA) and currently an independent scholar. He has written prolifically on the Franciscan movement in the 13th and early 14th century, including a series of reprinted studies The Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239) (Spoleto, 2009) and a monograph, Francis of Assisi (Reaktion Books, 2023) Dabney G. Park, Ph.D. (1971), Tulane University, is an adjunct professor of modern languages at the University of Miami and a specialist in Dante studies. His major scholarly focus has been on the relationship between Dante and the medieval Franciscans. He has published a number of articles in Dante Studies, Franciscan Studies and Annali d’Italianistica.

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Publications of David Burr



Introduction



PART 1: The Historiography of David Burr



1 David Burr: Life and Career

 Kevin Madigan

2 Recapitulation or Chronological Progression? David Burr Treats Medieval Commentaries on the Book of Revelation

 Robert E. Lerner

3 David Burr, the Book of Revelation and American Historiography

 Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian



PART 2: Medieval Apocalypticism: Joachim of Fiore and His Legacy



4 La nova Babilon secondo Gioacchino da Fiore e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi

 Gian Luca Potestà

5 Che cosa è il “Liber Figurarum” di Gioacchino da Fiore?

 Marco Rainini

6 Il futuro è dei bambini? Storia di una profezia dal XIII al XV secolo

 Marco Bartoli



PART 3: Peter of John Olivi: Life and Writings



7 Textual Criticism in the Franciscan Exegesis of the 13th Century. Peter of John Olivi: A Case Study

 Gilbert Dahan

8 Bonaventure and Olivi: When Fidelity Leads to Divergence

 C. Colt Anderson

9 The Manuscripts of Peter of John Olivi’s Lectura super Apocalipsim in Toulouse and Berlin: Research on the Oldest Textual Tradition

 Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian

10 Olivi’s Philosophy of Evil in History

 Warren Lewis

11 The Last Unedited Question of Olivi on Evangelical Perfection: Concerning Suspicious Encounters with Women (QPE7)

 Sylvain Piron

12 A Comparison of the Commentaries on Luke of Peter of John Olivi and Nicholas of Lyra

 Philip Krey

13 Una fonte oliviana nel sermone In Visitatione beatae Mariae Virginis di Bernardino da Siena

 Fortunato Iozzelli, O.F.M.



PART 4: The Spiritual Franciscans: Their Precursors and Adherents



14 Rush to Judgment? The Trial of John of Parma

 Dabney G. Park

15 John of Murrovalle, Cardinal Protector of the Franciscan Order (1307–1312), and the Spiritual Franciscans

 Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M

16 Following the Heart: Relics, Martyrdom and the Relational Space among the Beguins of Languedoc

 Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel

17 Chronicle or History: The Uncertain Literary Genre of a Dissident Story

 Antonio Montefusco

18 Dal Monte degli Ulivi alla Verna: riscritture francescane di Matteo 24

 Michele Lodone



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