Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the early Italian representations of Francis of Assisi / William Cook -- The joy of St. Francis: Bellini's panel in the Frick Collection / Marilyn Lavin -- Ocular chastity: optical theory, architectural barriers, and the gaze in the Renaissance church of San Marco in Florence / Theresa Flanigan -- Franciscans and the man of sorrows in fifteenth-century Padua / William Barcham -- Standing on the threshold: beholder and vision in the St. Francis cycle in the upper church of San Francesco, Assisi / Beth Mulvaney -- Images of Franciscan history / David Flood -- Artistic diversity in color and style of the habit in paintings of St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries / David Haack -- From conversion to reconversion: assessing Franciscan missionary practices and visual culture in colonial Mexico / Cristina Cruz González -- The 1472 translatio of the relics of St. Bernardine of Siena: a new interpretation of a fresco by Pinturicchio in the Bufalini chapel in Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome / Trinita Kennedy -- Gender, image, and devotion in illustrated manuscripts of the Meditationes vitae Christi / Holly Flora -- The eyes have it: the question of redemptive vision in the Verger de soulas (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 9220) / Lynn Ransom -- The place of aesthetics and the arts in medieval Franciscan theology / Oleg Bychkov -- The transubstantiation of St. Francis of Assisi: searching for a paradigm / Xavier Seubert -- Bonaventure, Bessarion and the Franciscan coat of arms / Irving Lavin -- A Byzantine Franciscan and the coincidence of opposites / Robert Lentz.

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