Editors' introduction
Preface: A literary apostolate : John Fleming and the Franciscan literature of the middle ages / D. Vance Smith
Part I: Franciscan exegesis
Francis of Assisi, deacon : an examination of the claims of the earliest Franciscan sources, 1229-1235 / Michael F. Cusato
Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis
Part II: Students and scholars
Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay
Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman
Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. Clopper
William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum : a false start to medieval anit-fraternalism? / G. Geltner
Part III: Franciscan critics and critics of theGranciscans
History as prophecy : Angelo Clareno's chronicle as a spiritual Franciscan apocalypse / David Burr
Views of John XXII as a heretical pope / Patrick Nold
Kicking the habit : the campaign against the friars in a fourteenth-century encyclopedia / Penn Szittya
Si Sind all Glichsner : anti-fraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German literature / Geoffrey Dipple
Part IV: Franciscan legacies
Imitatio francisci : the influence of Francis of Assisi on late medieval religious life / Lester K. Little
Louis IX : preaching to Franciscan and Dominican brothers and nuns / William Chester Jordan
Preaching as playwriting : a semi-dramatic sermon of the fifteenth century / Katherine l. Jansen.