The Franciscans:  A Select Bibliography (Summer 2006)

George Dameron (Department of History, Saint Michael’s College)

• Louisa Bourdua, The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy

·        Rosalind Brooke and Christopher N. L. Brooke, “St. Clare,” in Medieval  Women, edited by Derek Baker, editor (Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1978), 275-278. 

• Rosalind Brooke, The Coming of the Friars (New York:  Barnes and Noble, 1975).
• -----, Early Franciscan Government:  Elias to Bonaventure (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1959).

·        Bruce Carniello, “Gerardo Segarelli as the Anti-Francis, 1260-1300,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History April 2006:  226-251.

• David Burr, Olivi and Franciscan Poverty:  The Origins of the Usus Pauper Controversy (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989)
• ------,  Olivi’s Peaceable Kingdom (1993).
• ------,  The Spiritual Franciscans (2001).
• G. K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi (Garden City, New York:  Doubleday, 1957; first published 1924).
• John Coakley, “Gender and Authority of , Church History 60 (4) December 1991:  445-60.
• I Compagni di Francesco e la prima generazione minoritica: atti del XIX convegno internazionale (Assisi 17-19 ottobre, 1991).  Spoleto:  Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 1992.
• William Cook, The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy (Leiden:  Brill, 2005)
• ------, “Francis of Assisi,” in Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz et al. (New York:  Routledge, 2004), 367-371.
• ------, “Franciscan Order,” in Medieval Italy, volume 1, 371-373.
• -----, Francis of Assisi:  The Way of Poverty and Humility (Wilmington, Delaware:  M. Glazier, 1989)
• Adam Davis, “A 13^th Century Franciscan Money Manager:  Archbishop Eudes Rigaud of Rouen, 1248-1275,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 563 (July 2005).
• D. L. D’Avray, The Preaching of the Friars:  Sermons Diffused from Paris before 1300 (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1985).
• Decima L. Douie, The Nature and Effect of the Heresy of the Fraticelli (Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 1932).
• John Fleming.  An Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald, 1977).
• Francesco e il Francescanesimo e la cultura della nuova Europa, edited by Ignazio Baldelli and Angiola Maria Romanini (Rome:  Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1986).
• John Freed, The Friars and German Society in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge:  Medieval Academy, 1977).
• Chiara Frugoni, Francis of Assisi, trans. John Bowden (New York:  Continuum, 1998)

·        Herbert Grundmann, Religious Movements in the Middle Ages, translated by Steven Rowan (Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).

• Nicholas Havely, Dante and the Franciscans:  poverty and the papacy in the Commedia (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• Clifford Hugh Lawrence,  The Friars:  The Impact of the Early Mendicant Movement on Western Society (New York:  Longman, 1994).
• Lester Little.  Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, New York:  Cornell University Press, 1978).
• Grado Merlo.  Nel nome di San Francesco: storia dei frati minori e del francescanesimo (Padua:  Editrici francescane, 2003).
• ----- and Franco Bolgiani, editors, Il francescanesimo dalle origini alla metà del secolo XVI (Bologna:  Il Mulino, 2005).
• John Moorman, History of the Franciscan Order (Franciscan Press, 1988). 

·        Lezlie Knox, “Audacious Nuns:  Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare,” Church History  69 (1) March 2000:  41-62.

• Matteo d’Acquasparta francescano, filosofo, politico.  Atti del XXIX Convegno di storia internazionale.  Todi 11-14 ottobre, 1992.  Spoleto:  Centro italiano di storia sull’alto medioevo, 1993.
• Michael Robson, Saint Francis of Assisi:  The Legend and the Life (London:  Geoffrey Chapman, 1997)
• Paul Sabatier, Life of Saint Francis of Assisi, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (New York:  Charles Scribner, 1894).
• Bernhard Schlager, “Foundresses of the Franciscan Life:  Umiliana dei Cerchi and Margherita of Cortona,” Viator 29 (1998):  141-166.

·        Barbara Sella, “Northern Italian Confraternities and the Immaculate Conception in the Fourteenth Century,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (4) 1998:  599-619.

·        André Vauchez, The Laity in the Middle Ages:  Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices, edited by Daniel Bornstein (Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1993).

Primary Sources

• Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, 2^nd edition, ed. Regis Armstrong (St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1993).
• Early Dominicans:  Selected Writings, edited by Simon Tugwell (New York:  Paulist Press, 1982)
• Francis and Clare:  The Complete Works
• Francis of Assisi: The Saint, ed. Regis Armstrong et al. (New York:  New York, 1999; volume 1 of Francis of Assisi:  Early Documents; volumes 2 and 3 forthcoming)

·        Marion A. Habig, St. Francis of Assisi:  Writings and Early Biographies (Franciscan Herald Press, 1983).

• Salimbene

·        Walter L. Wakefield and Austin P. Evans, translators; Heresies of the High Middle Ages (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1991).