This volume offers a sample of the many ways that medieval Franciscans wrote, represented in art, and preached about the ‘model of models’ of the medieval religious experience, the Virgin Mary. This is an extremely valuable collection of essays that highlight the significant role the Franciscans played in developing Mariology in the Middle Ages. Beginning with Francis, Clare, and Anthony, a number of significant theologians, spiritual writers, preachers, and artists are presented in their attempt to capture the significance and meaning of the Virgin Mary in the context of the late Middle Ages within the Franciscan movement.
Contributors are Luciano Bertazzo, Michael W. Blastic, Rachel Fulton Brown, Leah Marie Buturain, Marzia Ceschia, Holly Flora, Alessia Francone, J. Isaac Goff, Darrelyn Gunzburg, Mary Beth Ingham, Christiaan Kappes, Steven J. McMichael, Pacelli Millane, Kimberly Rivers, Filippo Sedda, and Christopher J. Shorrock.
Author(s): Steven McMichael, Katie Wrisley Shelby
Series: The Medieval Franciscans, 16
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 467
City: Leiden
Medieval Franciscan Approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Sanctissima, Misericordia, et Dolorosa
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: The Foundations of Franciscan Marian Reflection: Francis, Clare, and Anthony
1 The Virgin Mary in the Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi
2 Maria Oliva Benedicta: A Reflection on the Mariology of Anthony of Padua/Lisbon
Part 2: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Theology
3 Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure's Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the Annunciation
4 The Mariology of Conrad of Saxony (d. 1279) as Presented in His Speculum Beatae Maria Virginis
5 Mary and the Body of God: Servasanctus of Faenza and the Psalter of Creation
6 Marian Devotion in Saint Angela of Foligno (1248-1309), Tertiary and Franciscan Mystic
7 'Fired France for Mary without Spot': John Duns Scotus and the Immaculate Conception
8 Francis of Meyronnes and the Immaculate Conception
Part 3: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Vita Christi Tradition
9 'Beholding' the Virgin Mary in Imitatio Mariae: Meditationes Vitae Christi's Spiritual Exercises for Sacramental Seeing of the Annunciation
10 A Medieval Franciscan Meditation on the Mother of Jesus
Part 4: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Art
11 Cimabue's Santa Maria degli Angeli at Assisi
12 Reflecting on Mary: The Splendor of the Madonna in the Lower Church of Assisi
Part 5: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Preaching
13 The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of Regensburg
14 The Virgin Mary Is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da Siena
15 The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450)
16 John of Capistrano and the Virgin Mary: Preliminary Research on the Marian Sermons
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Index of Names and Subjects
