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Saint Margaret of Cortona is the light of the Third Order of Francis. Such is
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the theme of the most extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in the
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Middle Ages. Margaret’s extraordinary career brings the historian closer to
the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells
us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic
cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, opens
to the tensions between the Franciscan Community and the Spiritual
Franciscans before the split prior to Pope John XXII. Indeed it could be
Peter of John Olivi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Medieval Texts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Francis and the Early Franciscan Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Clare and the Poor Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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said that we know more about Margaret of Cortona than about any woman
of thirteenth-century Italy, with the exception of Clare of Assisi and Clare
of Montefalco.
This edition is translated from the critical Latin edition by Fortunato
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Iozzelli, O.F.M. The Life and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona by Fra
Giunta Bevegnati. The original translation by Thomas Renna has been
edited by Shannon Larson.
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THOMAS RENNA, PHD, Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, teaches history of
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Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Renaissance France, ancient and modern Middle East. He has an undergraduate
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degree in History from the University of Scranton, a masters of Medieval History from the University of Nebraska
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and a PhD in Medieval History from Brown University.
Renna has published three books, including Jerusalem in Medieval Thought 400-1300 (Mellen Pr 2002), 120
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Founded in 1939, the Franciscan Institute stands as
the preeminent center in North America of teaching,
research, and publication on the history, spirituality
and intellectual life of the Franciscan movement. Most
noteworthy among the Franciscan Institute’s publica-
journal articles on medieval thought: political theory, church-state conflicts, Franciscan, Cistercian, Benedictine,
biblical exegesis, hagiography, manuscript illumination, Petrarch, Augustine. He also has 160 paper presentations
at conferences in the US, Canada, Europe, and Middle East.
Renna has received numerous awards and fellowships for scholarship and teaching.
For this translation of the Life of St. Margaret, Renna spent four summers in Cortona examining the manuscripts
of the Vita, and sources in Cortona and Rome libraries and archives. Renna interviewed Italian scholars, the parish
priest of Cortona, archivists, and numerous public figures in Cortona, the church of St Margaret, and Rome. He
tions are series devoted to texts, philosophy, theology
wishes to thank all these very helpful people and especially Fortunato Iozzelli, OFM, the editor of the modern
and spirituality. It also publishes Franciscan Studies, an
critical edition of the Vita, who encouraged him to translate this invaluable work of Franciscan history. Renna is
annual scholarly review containing articles in the major
especially grateful to Sr. Margaret Carney, who originally suggested in 1995 that he introduce her counterpart in
languages of Western Europe on Franciscan philosophi-
Cortona to English speakers. Renna is currently writing a book on papal-imperial political theory during the early
cal and theological thought and history and The Cord, a
popular quarterly review of Franciscan spirituality.
Avignon Papacy.
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