List #7A: Mendicants as Saints                                             

Primary Sources

[Dominic et al.]  The Dominican Tradition.  Edited by Phyllis Zagano and Thomas C. McGonigle.  Spirituality in History Series.  Collegeville MN:  Liturgical Press, 2006.  

[Dominic et al.]  Early Dominicans:  Selected Writings.  Edited by Simon Tugwell.  Classics of Western Spirituality.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1982.

[Francis]  St. Francis of Assisi:  Writings and Early Biographies.  English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis.  Edited by Marion A. Habig.  Chicago, Illinois:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1983. 

[Francis] Francis of Assisi:  Early Documents.  Edited by Regis J. Armstrong, J. Wayne Hellmann, and William J. Short.  3 vols.  Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1999.

[Francis]  Scripta Leonis Rufini et Angeli Sociorum S. Francisci.  Edited by Rosalind Brooke.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1977.

[Francis]  A Poor Man’s Legacy:  An Anthology of Franciscan Poverty.  Edited by Cyprian J. Lynch.  St. Bonaventure NY:  The Franciscan Institute, 1988.

[Nicholas of Tolentino]  Il processo per la canonizzazione di S. Nicola da Tolentino.  Edited by Nicola Occhioni. Collection de l’École française de Rome 74.  Rome:  Padri Agostiniani di Tolentino and École française de Rome, 1984.

[Mary of Venice]  La Santità imitabile:  “Leggenda di Maria da Venezia” di Tommaso da Siena.  By Fernanda Sorelli.  Miscellanea di studi e memorie 23.  Venice:  Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie, 1984. 

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Brufani, Stefano. "I Santi mendicanti." In Forme e modelli della santità in Occidente dal tardo antico al medioevo, edited by Massimiliano Bassetti, Antonella Degl'Innocenti, and Enrico Menestò. Spoleto: CISAM, 2012.  Pp. 57-96.

Carney, Margaret.  The First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi and Her Form of Life.  Quincy IL:  Franciscan Press, 1993.

Fleming, John V.  Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages.  Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1977.

Freed, John B.  The Friars and German Society in the Thirteenth Century.  Medieval Academy of America Publications 86.  Cambridge:  Medieval Academy of America, 1977. 

Gelber, Hester Goodenough.  “A Theater of Virtue:  The Exemplary World of St. Francis of Assisi.”  In Saints and Virtues.  Edited by John Stratton Hawley.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1987.  Pp. 15-35.

Goodich, Michael.  Vita Perfecta:  The Ideal of Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.  Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 25.  Stuttgart:  Anton Hiersemann, 1982.                                    

Hamilton, Bernard.  “Ideals of Holiness:  Crusaders, Contemplatives, and Mendicants.”  The International History Review 17 (1995):  693-712.

Kleinberg, Aviad M.  Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1992.  [Especially chapters 2 and 6.]

Lawrence, Clifford Hugh.  The Friars:  The Impact of the Early Mendicant Movement on Western Society.  The Medieval World.  London and New York:  Longman, 1994.

Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju.  Worldly Saints:  Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500.  Bibliotheca Historica 35.  Helsinki:  Suomen historiallinen Seura, 1999.

Manselli, Raoul.  “Agiografia francescana tra interpretazione teologica e religiosità popolare.”  In Convegno internazionale:  Agiografia nell’occidente cristiano secoli XIII-XV (Roma, 1-2 marzo 1979).  Atti dei convegni lincei 48.  Rome:  Accademia nazionale dei lincei, 1980.  Pp. 45-56.

Mulchahey, Marian Michèle.   "First the Bow is Bent in Study-- " : Dominican Education before 1350.  Studies and Texts 132.  Toronto:  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1998.

Paciocco, Roberto.  Da Francesco ai Catalogi Sanctorum. Livelli isituzionali e immagini agiografiche nell'Ordine Francescano (secoli XIII-XIV).  Collectio Assisiensis, 20.   Assisi:  Edizioni Porziuncola, 1990.

Raitt, Jill (ed.).  Christian Spirituality:  High Middle Ages and Reformation.  World Spirituality 17.  New York:  Crossroad, 1988.

Rosenwein, Barbara, and Lester Little.  “Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities.”  Past and Present 63 (1974): 4-32.

Rublack, Ulinka.  “Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents.”  In Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-1800, edited by Bob Scribner and Trevor Johnson.  New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 1996.  Pp. 16-37.

Sorrell, Roger D.  St. Francis of Assisi and Nature:  Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1988. [Howe]

Stephens, J.  “The Conversion of St. Francis.”  In City and Countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy:  Studies Presented to Philip Jones, edited by Trevor Dean and Chris Wickham.  Ronceverte:  Hambledon Press, 1990.  Pp. 31-43.

Thompson, Augustine.  Revival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Italy:  The Great Devotion of 1233.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1992.

Thomson, Williell R.  Friars in the Cathedral:  The First Franciscan Bishops, 1226-1261. Toronto:  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1975. 

Toynbee, Margaret R.  Saint Louis of Toulouse and the Process of Canonization in the Fourteenth Century.  British Society of Franciacan Studies 15.  Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 1929.

Trexler, Richard C.  Naked before the Father:  The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi.  Humana Civilitas 9.  New York:  Peter Lang, under the auspices of the CMRS, UCLA, 1989.

Van Engen, John.  “Dominic and the Brothers:  Vitae as Life-Forming Exempla in the Order of Preachers.” In Christ among the Medieval Dominicans. Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies, 7. Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. Pp. 7-25.

Vauchez, André. Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint, translated by Michael F. Cusato. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Vauchez, André.  “L’ideal de sainteté dans le mouvement féminin  franciscain aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles.”  In Movimento religioso femminile e francescanesimo nel secolo XIII:  Atti del VII    Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 11-13 ottobre 1979.  Assisi:  Società internazionale di studi francescani, 1981.  Pp. 315-37.

Vauchez, André.   Ordini mendicanti e società italiana, XIII-XV secolo.  Milan:  Il Saggiatore, 1990.

Webster, Jill R.  ‘Els Menorets’:  The Franciscans in the Realms of Aragon from St. Francis to the Black Death.  Studies and Texts 114.  Toronto:  Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1993.