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Teenage Rebellion in the Middle Ages: How Salimbene de Adam became a Franciscan

Medievalists.net — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:15:28 +0000

It is a popular story - the teenage son defying his parents and doing something very rebellious. It could be using drugs, getting a tattoo, or falling into with the wrong type of people. Back in the thirteenth-century, the rebellious son might become a Franciscan!

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Sacerdos et Predicator: Franciscan ‘Experience’ and the Cronica of Salimbene de Adam

Medievalists.net — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:14:52 +0000

The Chronicle of the thirteenth-century Franciscan friar Salimbene de Adam is filled with an abundance of self-referential passages.

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10 Creepy Things to See at the Louvre That Are Better Than the Mona Lisa

Medievalists.net — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:14:48 +0000

If you're an ancient historian, a medievalist, or early modernist, there are so many other amazing pieces and works of art a the Louvre other than these two tourist staples. Here is my list of cool, creepy, unusual and better than the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.

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The Sincere Body: The Performance of Weeping and Emotion in Late Medieval Italian Sermons

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:58:05 +0000

In 1493 the well-known and controversial Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Feltre gave a series of Lenten sermons to the people of Pavia. On March 11 he dedicated an entire sermon to the necessity of contrition—or perfect sorrow over sin—in the rite of confession.

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The Power of Word: Preachers in Medieval Dubrovnik

Medievalists.net — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:22:07 +0000

In the pastoral of the Franciscan and Dominican orders preaching became the principal task of their mission. Preaching manuals represented the basis of the new art. The preachers also used sermon collections, Bible concordances and exempla collections.

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Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:27:22 +0000

The rise of the new mendicant orders, foremost the Franciscans and Dominicans, is one of the great success stories of thirteenth-century Europe. Combining apostolic poverty with sophisticated organization and university learning, they brought much needed improvements to pastoral care in the growing cities.

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The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:40:55 +0000

When Dominic of Caleruega began preaching in southern France in the early 1200s, he would have had no idea of the far reaching influence that the band of men he would attract would leave such a broad and enduring influence on medieval history.

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Did Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe?

Medievalists.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:22:52 +0000

This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

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Kickstarter campaign to restore St.Francis of Assisi’s home in Rome

Medievalists.net — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:02:44 +0000

The Franciscan order hopes to raise $125 000 to restore a convent in Rome which was the home of St. Francis of Assisi. They have created a Kickstarter campaign to ask for donations from the public.

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Late Medieval Franciscan Statutes on Convent Libraries and Education

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:30:28 +0000

Although the higher education of the Franciscans has frequently been the object of research, their role in offering elementary instruction has often been ignored.

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