Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction Before the Council of Trent

This survey provides medievalists and Renaissance scholars alike with the first comprehensive introduction to Franciscan texts of religious instruction, ranging from sermon cycles, catechistic manuals and novice training treatises, to the larger texts of liturgical and religious edification.

About the author

Bert Roest, Ph.D. (1996) University of Groningen, is Visiting Professor of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University, NY. He has published extensively on later medieval and early modern intellectual history. His publications include A History of Franciscan Education (Brill, 2000) and (together with Stephen Gersh) Medieval and Renaissance Humanism. Rhetoric, Representation and Reform (Brill, 2003).

Product details

• Authors: Bert Roest
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9789004140264
• ISBN: 978-90-04-14026-4
• No. of pages: 696
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 247 mm x 49 mm
• Weight: 1361 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries