Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography. Contributors draw upon Moorman's diaries and his materials for a biographical register of the Franciscans in medieval England. The volume is in tune with recent developments in Franciscan history in general, with a special interest in the English province. This is exemplified by studies on Franciscan iconography; the English province's impact of the wider order; the scholastic enterprise; prosopography; economy; sermons; the application of Canon Law to the debates at the papal court; and the evolution of John Moorman's studies on St Francis and his followers.

Michael Robson is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.Patrick Zutshi is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceI. John Moorman and his Franciscan Studies1. John Moorman, a Franciscan historian, by Michael Robson 2. Catching the Franciscan spirit: John Moorman and St Francis in his student days, by Petà Dunstan II. The Order of Friars Minor in England3. Images of Franciscans and Dominicans in a manuscript of Alexander Nequam's Florilegium (Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.42), by Patrick Zutshi 4. A biographical register of the English province of the Greyfriars: a sample drawn from the custody of York, by Michael Robson5. The Economic Foundations of the Franciscan custody of Cambridge, by Jens Röhrkasten 6. The Franciscans and their Graves in Medieval London, by Christian Steer7. Late Medieval Franciscan Preaching in England, by Bert RoestIII. The Friars and the Schools8. Adam Marsh at Oxford, by C.H.Lawrence9. The theological use of science at the Oxford Franciscan School: Thomas Docking, Roger Bacon and Robert Grosseteste's works, by Cecilia Panti 10. English Franciscans and their influence on the early history of the order, by Neslihan Senocak11. Who destroyed Assisi ? The Lament of Jacopone da Todi, by Michael Cusato, OFM12. The Paradox of Franciscan Use of Canon Law in the Fourteenth-Century Poverty Disputes, by Joseph CanningAppendixThe Moorman Letters in the Archive of the Collegio San Bonaventura (Quaracchi/Grottaferrata/Rome), by William Short, OFM