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Dr Amanda Power: List of publications

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Beyond paradigms: Rethinking the Franciscan Order

2020
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Between Orders and Heresy: Religious Movements in the Middle Ages Revisited, Revised, and Reimagined

Conception and Practices of Knowledge, 500-1450

2020
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The Cultural History of Ideas (6 vols.)

Globalising Cosmologies

2018
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Past and Present

Per lumen sapientiae: Roger Bacon and the struggle for a hegemonic rationality

2018
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Outsiders and Forerunners: Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy

The Friars in Church and State, 1224-ca. 1267

2017
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The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350)
The English province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) provides a series of stimulating studies by an international team of scholars, who consider the rich diversity of the friars’ ministry in England, especially their impact upon the ...
History

The Uncertainties of Reformers: Collective Anxieties and Strategic Discourses

2017
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Thirteenth Century England XVI: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2015

Encounters in the Ruins: Latin Captives, Franciscan Friars and the Dangers of Religious Plurality in the early Mongol Empire

2015
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Christianity and Religious Plurality
This, the fifty-first volume of Studies in Church History, takes as its theme 'Christianity and Religious Plurality'. The focus is on exploring the practical experience of Christians, who have often existed in a world of manifold belief systems and religious practices. Under the Presidency of Professor John Wolffe, the summer conference and winter volume brought together a fascinating series of lectures and communications, a selection of which are collected in this peer-reviewed volume. Three main areas of engagement emerge: contexts where Christianity was a minority faith, whether in the earliest years of the church, in the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century or under Ottoman rule in the fifteenth, or in contemporary Iraq, Egypt and Indonesia; responses to religious minorities in predominantly Christian societies, such as early-modern Malta or nineteenth- and twentieth-century London; and finally, Christian encounters with other religions in situations where no single tradition was obviously dominant. Offering an unusual perspective on Christian encounters with other faiths, this volume will appeal to students of religious studies and those interested in the cultural contexts in which Christianity has existed - and indeed continues to exist.

The Problem of Obedience among the English Friars

2014
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Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life
This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The book offers a rich variety of perspectives, including the role of exhortatory literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience, the implementation of reform, the importance of architectural features, the relative merits of the eremitical (religious recluse), and the monastic form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the 13th and 15th centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life.

The Cosmographical Imagination of Roger Bacon

2013
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Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300–1600
Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those 'imagined geographies' that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.

'Roger Bacon’ and ‘Opus maius and related works’

2012
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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History

Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

2012
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The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (c.1214–92) holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure, at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major study, the first in English for nearly sixty years, offers a provocative new interpretation of both Bacon and his environment. Amanda Power argues that his famous writings for the papal curia were the product of his critical engagement with the objectives of the Franciscan order and the reform agenda of the thirteenth-century church. Fearing that the apocalypse was at hand and Christians unprepared, Bacon explored radical methods for defending, renewing and promulgating the faith within Christendom and beyond. Read in this light, his work indicates the breadth of imagination possible in a time of expanding geographical and intellectual horizons.

The Importance of Greeks in Latin Thought: the Evidence of Roger Bacon

2012
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Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor
The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. His colleagues, students and friends discuss questions including ship construction in the fourth and fifteenth centuries, navigation and harbourage in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian Peninsula, military and social issues arising among the crusaders during field campaigns, and wider aspects of medieval warfare. All those with an interest in any of these subjects, whether students or specialists, will need to consult this book.
History

The Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon's Expertise

2011
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Knowledge, Discipline and Power: Essays in Honour of David Luscombe
This collection of essays is based on a conference in honour of David Luscombe held at the University of Sheffield in September 2006 under the title "Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages." The 14 contributions to this Festschrift, by leading scholars in the field, show the strength and variety of recent work on the intellectual history of the middle ages. A group of papers deals with changes in the intellectual landscape during this period. Other papers focus particularly on the theme of jurisdiction, while a third groups deals with knowledge and its uses. The papers fittingly reflect the breadth and inventiveness of David Luscombe's scholarship, and in particular his work on Peter Abelard.

Going among the infidels: the mendicant orders and Louis IX's first Mediterranean campaign

2010
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Mediterranean Historical Review
The relationship between Louis IX of France and the mendicant orders is well known. Yet it has generally been studied in order to shed light on Louis' reign rather than on the development of the orders. Contemporaries tended to criticize friars who worked too closely with secular authorities and their suspicions have passed into the historiography. This means that we know less than we might about how friars created and used opportunities to carry out their mission in the wider world. This article considers how Louis and members of the religious orders worked together during his crusade of 1248–54 to bring about the conversion to Christianity of Muslims and Mongols. It looks at the ways in which they drew on ideas of the apostolic life and wider papal agendas, but also employed standard strategies of diplomacy and debate, seizing on a range of opportunities as they arose. A second strand investigates their experiences in the light of scholarship on the Mediterranean and of more global cultural encounters. How far did their time in the Mediterranean and beyond influence the way that they thought about the world and their own faith?

In the Last Days at the End of the World: Roger Bacon and the Reform of Christendom

2008
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Canterbury studies in Franciscan history
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Franciscan Advice to the Papacy in the Middle Ages

2007
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History Compass
The famous image of Francis of Assisi holding up the falling Church has come to symbolise the nature of the relationship between the Franciscans and the papacy in the thirteenth century. Deliberately manufactured by Franciscan propagandists at a time when they were becoming indispensable in almost every area of Christian activity, it represented a complex set of ideas about medieval spirituality, power and responsibility. This article investigates the ideals, concerns and ambitions of the order through examination of a number of occasions on which prominent Franciscans offered criticism and advice to the papal curia. In the process, light is shed on the anxieties of Christendom in an age of crisis.

A Mirror for Every Age: The Reputation of Roger Bacon

2006
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The English Historical Review

Infideles in the Opus maius of Roger Bacon

2005
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Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies workshop, Travel and Cartography from Bede to the Enlightenment (August 22-23, 2001) track a variety of travel narratives from the eighth century to the eighteenth. Their voyages, which extend from from the literal to the spiritual, the political, and the artistic, show how the concept of narrative mapping has changed over time, and how it encompasses cosmogony, geography, chorography, topography, and inventory. Each essay is concerned in some way with the application of the medieval geographical imagination, or with the enduring influence of that imagination upon post-medieval travel and discovery writing. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate university students and to a broad range of academics across the disciplines of literature and history. It will be of particular interest to medievalists and scholars of the early modern period and to readers of, the new (1997) scholarly journal, Studies in Travel Writing. The volume will also appeal to a more general, informed readership interested in the history of travel and the history of ideas, early contact with indigenous people, and encounters between East and West.
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