Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Publications of David Burr -- Introduction -- PART 1: The Historiography of David Burr -- 1 David Burr: Life and Career -- Kevin Madigan -- 2 Recapitulation or Chronological Progression? David Burr Treats Medieval Commentaries on the Book of Revelation -- Robert E. Lerner -- 3 David Burr, the Book of Revelation and American Historiography -- Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian -- PART 2: Medieval Apocalypticism: Joachim of Fiore and His Legacy -- 4 La nova Babilon secondo Gioacchino da Fiore e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi -- Gian Luca Potestà -- 5 Che cosa è il " Liber Figurarum " di Gioacchino da Fiore? -- Marco Rainini -- 6 Il futuro è dei bambini? Storia di una profezia dal XIII al XV secolo -- Marco Bartoli -- PART 3: Peter of John Olivi: Life and Writings -- 7 Textual Criticism in the Franciscan Exegesis of the 13th Century. Peter of John Olivi: A Case Study -- Gilbert Dahan -- 8 Bonaventure and Olivi: When Fidelity Leads to Divergence -- C. Colt Anderson -- 9 The Manuscripts of Peter of John Olivi's Lectura super Apocalipsim in Toulouse and Berlin: Research on the Oldest Textual Tradition -- Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian -- 10 Olivi's Philosophy of Evil in History -- Warren Lewis -- 11 The Last Unedited Question of Olivi on Evangelical Perfection: Concerning Suspicious Encounters with Women ( QPE 7) -- Sylvain Piron -- 12 A Comparison of the Commentaries on Luke of Peter of John Olivi and Nicholas of Lyra -- Philip Krey -- 13 Una fonte oliviana nel sermone In Visitatione beatae Mariae Virginis di Bernardino da Siena -- Fortunato Iozzelli, O.F.M. -- PART 4: The Spiritual Franciscans: Their Precursors and Adherents -- 14 Rush to Judgment? The Trial of John of Parma -- Dabney G. Park -- 15 John of Murrovalle, Cardinal Protector of the Franciscan Order (1307-1312), and the Spiritual Franciscans -- Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M -- 16 Following the Heart: Relics, Martyrdom and the Relational Space among the Beguins of Languedoc -- Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel -- 17 Chronicle or History : The Uncertain Literary Genre of a Dissident Story -- Antonio Montefusco -- 18 Dal Monte degli Ulivi alla Verna: riscritture francescane di Matteo 24 -- Michele Lodone -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume is a collection of essays written in honor of David Burr, emeritus professor at the Polytechnic University of Virginia (Blacksburg): a scholar who has spent a career researching and publishing on the multi-faceted phenomenon of the Spiritual Franciscans (late 13th-early 14th century) and, in particular, on the life and writings of Peter of John Olivi in southern France. Representing some of the finest scholars in the field these eighteen scholarly essays touch on aspects of both phenomena. Three essays are devoted to the historiography of David Burr; three are dedicated to medieval Apocalypticism; another seven deal specifically with Peter of John Olivi; and five final essays explore aspects of the Spiritual Franciscans, their precursors and adherents. Contributors are C. Colt Anderson, Marco Bartoli, Michael F. Cusato, Gilbert Dahan, Alberto Forni, Fortunato Iozzelli, Philip D. Krey, Robert E. Lerner, Warren Lewis, Michele Lodone, Kevin Madigan, Antonio Montefusco, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Dabney G. Park, Sylvain Piron, Gian Luca Potestà, Marco Rainini, and Paolo Vian.

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