Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Chronology viii
6. Glossary of terms xi
7. Abbreviations xiii
8. Introduction 1
9. Section One: The Thirteenth Century
10. Chapter one. St Francis’s Vocation to Live and Proclaim the Gospel 10
11. Chapter two. The Initial Expansion of the Order 22
12. Chapter three. The Poor Followers of St Francis 37
13. Chapter four. The Friars’ Ministry of Preaching 48
14. Chapter five. Preparation for the Apostolate 58
15. Chapter six. Friars and the Papacy 69
16. Chapter seven. St Bonaventure 82
17. Chapter eight. The Order’s Role in the Church 95
18. Section Two: The Fourteenth Century
19. Chapter nine. The Mission to China 108
20. Chapter ten. The Growing Clamour for Reform 119
21. Chapter eleven. The Crisis under Pope John XXII 130
22. Chapter twelve. The Friars and Their Neighbours 141
23. Chapter thirteen. Giovanni Boccaccio, Satire and the Friars 151
24. Chapter fourteen. The Friars’ Churches 162
25. Chapter fifteen. Communities of the Friars Minor Conventual 171
26. Chapter sixteen. The Emergence of the Observant Reform in Umbria 181
27. Section Three: The Fifteenth Century
28. Chapter seventeen. The Preaching of St Bernardine of Siena 192
29. Chapter eighteen. Towards Division, 1400–1446 202
30. Chapter nineteen. Observants and Conventuals, 1420–1456 213
31. Conclusion 223
32. Select bibliography 224
33. Index 237