The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua.
This conference on the powers of the soul in medieval (Franciscan) thought is part of the ERC Project, ‘Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought.’
Some people are easily labeled. Their lives seem to be carefully organized and predictable. Robert Lax is not one of them.
What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves?
The whole life of Sister Maria Lanceata was intensely and profoundly dedicated to prayer, to the service of the community and to the help of the needy and the sick.