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Franciscan Studies: An annual academic journal


Franciscan Studies is a scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal published by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. It deals with Franciscan matters: history, philosophy, theology, and culture. The annual deadline for submitting articles is April 1.



Articles in the latest edition: Volume 82, 2024:


  • Franciscan Studies Journal cover, Vol. 82, 2024St. Bonaventure as a Reader of St. Albert: An Introduction — Luke Togni
  • Hypostases in Christ and the Work of Scholastic Christology: The Summa Halensis and Albert the Great’s Commentary on the Sentences Andrew Gertner Belfield
  • Sensing Beatitude: Albert the Great’s Vision of Glorified Sensation and its Reception in Bonaventure — John Kern
  • Supercelestial Trinitarian Predication in Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Albertus Magnus — Jonathan Gaworski
  • History, Narrative, and Romance: Contemporary Concerns in Literary Representations of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Early Franciscan Movement — Liam Kelly
  • Lo sviluppo interpretativo della storiografia del primo ordine Dell’incontro tra s. Francesco e il sultano dal XVI secolo in poi —  Felice Autieri
  • In dulcedinem animi et corporis. La Douceur, un mystere franciscain —  Anna Gaelle Cuif
  • The Center Blossoms, Part 2: The Spirit of Salvation in Bonaventure’s Breviloquium — Thomas A. Piolata
  • Unremembered Faces: Black Involvement in the Franciscan autos in Sixteenth-Century Mexico? — Penelope Reilly
  • Renaissance Scotist Commentators on Predestination: Francesco Licheto and Giacomino Malafossa da Barge — Matthew Shadle 
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Editorial Board Franciscan Studies


 
General and Managing Editor
Krijn Pansters, Ph.D., Tilburg University

Associate Editor
Aaron M. Gies, Ph.D., St. Bonaventure University 

Senior Editors

  • Holly J. Grieco, Ph.D., Siena College (Women and Laity)
  • Michael Hahn, Ph.D., Sarum College (Spirituality)
  • Daniel P. Horan, Ph.D., Saint Mary's College (Contemporary Society)
  • Timothy J. Johnson, Ph.D., Flagler College (Theology)
  • Robert Pomplun, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (Theology)
  • Marianne Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Culture)
  • Neslihan Şenocak, Ph.D., Columbia University (Medieval History)
  • Ryan Thornton, OFM, Ph.D., St. Mark’s University Parish (Philosophy)
  • Liam Temple, Ph.D., Durham University (Modern History)

Book Review Editor
Andrew Belfield, Ph.D., St. Bonaventure University 
 
Assistant Editors
Kate Oxsen, Allison Zbicz Michael, Giovanni Patriarca


Submission style sheet and author index



Please use the links below to introduce yourself to the preferred editorial style of Franciscan Studies and to review a list of its contributing scholars through the decades. 

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