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Fra Salimbene and the Franciscan Ideal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Ephraim Emerton
Ephraim Emerton
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Harvard University
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One of the most engaging personalities of that most engaging of Christian centuries, the thirteenth, is Brother Salimbene of Parma. His life, begun in 1221, five years before the death of Francis of Assisi and ended, probably, about 1288, thirteen years after the birth of Dante, connects the mystical, devotional, ascetic piety of the Middle Ages with the rational, individualistic, personal attitude of the modern mind. A devoted member of the Franciscan Order and acutely sensitive to its historic significance, he spends his life in its manifold activities, and toward the close sets himself to the congenial task of putting down in order the most vivid impressions remaining to him of the men and things he has had dealings with.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1915 , pp. 480 - 503
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1915

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References

1 Chronica fratris Salimbene de Adam ordinis Minorum, ed. Oswald Holder-Egger in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, SS. XXXII. MDCCCCV–MDCCCCXIII.

2 Chronica Fr. Salimbene Parmensis ex codice Vaticanae nunc primum edita Parmae MDCCCLVII.

3 Die Chronik des Salimbene von Parma nach der Ausgabe der Monumenta Germaniae, bearbeitet von Alfred Doren. Leipzig, 191.

4 From St. Francis to Dante, G. G. Coulton, M.A. London, 1906.