Testimony, Narrative and Image: Studies in Medieval and Franciscan History, Hagiography and Art in Memory of Rosalind B. Brooke. This item is unavailable.Testimony, Narrative and Image: Studies in Medieval and Franciscan History, Hagiography and Art in Memory of Rosalind B. Brooke

This volume unites a team of distinguished scholars from France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the USA to celebrate Rosalind B. Brooke’s immense contribution to Franciscan studies over the last 60 years. It is divided into four sections, beginning with an appraisal of Dr Brooke’s influence upon Franciscan studies. The second section contains a series of historical studies and expressions of the Franciscan spirit. Hagiographical studies occupy the third section, reflecting the friars’ ministry and the thirst for the renewal of the Franciscan vision. The fourth part explores the art and iconographical images of St. Francis and his friars. These innovative studies reflect new insights into and interpretations of Franciscan life in the Middle Ages.

Contributors are (n order of appearance) Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M., Maria Pia Alberzoni, Bert Roest, Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., Jens Röhrkasten, David Luscombe, Luigi Pellegrini. Peter Murray Jones, Maria Teresa Dolso, Michael J.P. Robson, André Vauchez, David Burr, William R. Cook, Nigel Morgan, and Kathleen Giles Arthur.

Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. is a former director of the Franciscan Institute and dean of its School of Franciscan Studies (2003-11). He is a specialist in the history and sources of the Franciscan movement during the 13th and 14th centuries, and is working on a book on Francis of Assisi and his early Friars for Reaktion Books (London).
Michael J.P. Robson, Ph.D. (1988) lectured at the Franciscan Study Centre in Canterbury (1986-92). He has been a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, since 1992. His latest book is A Biographical Register of the Franciscans in the custody of York c.1229-1539, Boydell and Brewer (2019).