Bishops, Saints, and Historians

Robert Brentano was Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. William L North is Assistant Professor of History, Director of European Studies and Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Carleton College, USA.

Contents: Introduction, W.L. North; Bibliography of the works of Robert J. Brentano, W.L. North. Part 1 Bishops: The Whithorn vacancy of 1293-94; Late medieval changes in the administration of vacant suffragan dioceses: province of York; The bishops' books of Città di Castello; Sealed documents of the medieval archbishops at Amalfi; Vescovi e collocazione socio-culturale del clero parrocchiale; Notarial cartularies and religious personality: Rome, Rieti and Bishop Thomas of Secinaro (1339-1341); Vescovi e vicari generali nel basso medioevo; The local church of Amalfi in the context of Italian ecclesiastical institutions in the 13th and 14th centuries. Part 2 Saints: Francis of Assisi's gloss of Matthew 6:34; Early Franciscans and Italian towns; 'Do not say that this is a man from Assisi'; Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, and a caterva virginum; Filippa Mareri, la santa baronessa, la santa del Cicolano; Santa Filippa Mareri nel movimento religioso femminile del secolo XIII; Il movimento religioso femminile a Rieti nel secoli XIII-XIV; Peter of Morrone, space, and the problem of relics; Sulmona society and the miracles of Peter of Morrone; Identities and national formation: does religion integrate or disperse communities?. Part 3 History and Historians: Il sogno di Sant' Anselmo e lo sviluppo della biografia medievale; Samson of Bury revisited; The Jurisdictio Spiritualis: an example of 15th-century English historiography; The sound of Stubbs; Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906); The chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano; Matteo Camera's masterpiece; Italian ecclesiastical history: the Sambin revolution; Bishops and saints; Index.