Cusato, Fr. Michael

Collected Works

*dictionary articles, prefaces, reviews, etc.
+to be published in Volume I of the author’s collected essays (cf. no. 43)

1. “Le mouvement franciscain au 13e siècle dans un registre dissident: François d’Assise, Césaire de Spire et Gérard de Borgo San Donnino,” Mouvements dissidents et novateurs (Gap: CNEC / Centre René Nelli, 1990): 293-321 <= Hérésis 13-14 (janvier 1989, Supplément)>.
2. “Elias and Clare: An Enigmatic Relationship,” Clare of Assisi. Investigations, Volume VII. Franciscan Centenary Series (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1993), pp. 95-115;+
3. “The Cost of Discipleship in the Early 14th Century: Arnald of Villanova and the Beguins of Catalonia,” Collectanea Francescana 65 (1995): 183-205;
4. Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Moyen Age chrétien, 2 vols (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1997):“Césaire de Spire,” (p. 289); “Conventuels,” (pp. 393-394); “Fraternité,” (p. 627); “Jean de Parme,” (p. 817); “Michel de Cesene,” (p. 999); “Nicholas V, antipape,” (p. 1073); “Pauvreté volontaire,” (p. 1177); “Portiuncule,” (p. 1242);“Spirituels,” (p. 1456); “Tau (signe du),” (pp. 1484-1485); “Thomas de Celano,” (p. 1514);*
5. “‘Non propheta, sed profanus apostata’: The Eschatology of Brother Elias of Cortona and His Deposition as Minister General in 1239,” That Others May Know and Love. Essays in Honor of Zachary Hayes, O.F.M., Franciscan, Educator, Scholar, eds. Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., and F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M. (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1997), pp. 125-148;+
6. “The Renunciation of Power as a Foundational Theme in Early Franciscan History,” The Propagation of Power in the Medieval West, eds. Martin Grosman, Arjo Vanderjagt and Jan Veenstra. Mediaevalia Groningana, 23 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997), pp. 265-286;+
7. “Two Uses of the Vita Christi Tradition: John de Caulibus and Ubertino da Casale. A Response to Daniel Lesnick, Ten Years Hence,” Franciscan Studies 57 (1999): 131-148;
8. “Hermitage or Marketplace? The Search for an Authentic Franciscan locus in the World (Revised Version),” True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion and Itinerancy among the Early Franciscans. Spirit and Life, 10 (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2000), pp. 1-30;+
9. “Wall-to-Wall Ministry: Franciscan Ministry in the Cities of Thirteenth-Century Italy,” True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion and Itinerancy among the Early Franciscans. Spirit and Life, 10 (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2000), pp. 31-61;
10. “Talking About Ourselves: The Shift in Franciscan Writing from Hagiography to History (1235-1247),” Franciscan Studies 58 (2000): 37-52;+
11. “Guardians and the Use of Power in the Early Franciscan Fraternity” (unpublished);+
12. “Franciscans,” The Papacy, gen. ed. Philippe Levillain (London: Routledge, 2001) I: 591-597;*
13. “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Franciscan Glosses on the Pseudo-Joachim Commentary Super Hieremiam” (unpublished);
14. “'Something’s Lost and Must Be Found…’ The Recovery of the Historical Anthony of Padua – Part I,” The Cord 52, no.2 (March/April 2001): 58-71; “'Something’s Lost and Must Be Found…’ The Recovery of the Historical Anthony of Padua – Part II,” The Cord 52, no. 3 (May/June 2001): 106-113;+
15. “Whence ‘the Community’?” Franciscan Studies 60 (2002): 39-92;
16. “John of Parma,” New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C. 2002) 7: 979-80;*
17. Review: David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after St. Francis (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2001), in: Franciscan Studies 60 (2002): 359-373;*
18. Review: Dal pulpito alla cattedra. I vescovi degli ordini mendicanti nel ‘200 e nel primo ‘300. Atti del XXVII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 14-16 ottobre 1999. Atti dei Convegni della Società internazionale di studi francescani. Nuova serie, 10 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2000), in: The Catholic Historical Review Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 2 (April, 2002): 343-349;*
19. “An Unexplored Influence on the Epistola ad fideles of Francis of Assisi: The Epistola universis Christi fidelibus of Joachim of Fiore,” Franciscan Studies, 62 (2003): 253-278;+
20. “From Political Activism to Religious Mysticism: What Jacopone Learned in Prison,” Franciscana 5 (2003): 203-229;
21. “Commercium: From the Profane to the Sacred, ” Francis of Assisi: History, Hagiography and Hermeneutics, ed. Jay M. Hammond (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 2004), pp. 179-209;+
22. “’Esse ergo mitem et humilem corde, hoc est esse vere fratrem minorum’: Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and the Reformulation of the Franciscan Charism,” Charisma und religiöse Gemeinschaften im Mittelalter. Akten des 3. Internationalen Kongresses des “Italienisch-deutschen Zentrum für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte” in Verbindung mit Projekt C “Institutionelle Strukturen religiöser Orden im Mittelalter” und Projekt W “Stadtkultur und Klosterkultur in der mittelalterlichen Lombardei. Institutionelle Wechselwirkung zweier politischer und sozialer Felder” des Sonderforschungsbereichs 537 “Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit” (Dresden, 10.-12. Juni 2004). Vita Regularis. Abhandlungen, 26 (Münster: LIT, 2005), pp. 343-382;
23. “Parallel Lives? American Evangelicalism and Franciscan Evangelicalism Compared,” (unpublished);
24. Review: Ordini religiosi e società politica in Italia e Germania nei secoli XIV e XV, eds. Giorgio Chittolini and Kaspar Elm. Atti del XL Settimana di studio dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, 8-12 settembre 1997, Trento. Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Quaderni, 56 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001), in: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. XCI, no. 4 (October, 2005): 799-805;*
25. “David Burr: 18th Recipient of the Franciscan Institute Medal,” Franciscan Studies 63 (2005): 49-55;*
26. “Of Snakes and Angels: The Mystical Experience behind the Stigmatization Narrative of 1 Celano,” The Stigmata of Francis of Assisi: New Studies, New Perspectives (St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006), pp. 29-74;+
27. “From the perfectio sancti evangelii to the sanctissima vita et paupertas: An Hypothesis on the Origin of the privilegium paupertatis to Clare and Her Sisters at San Damiano,” Vita evangelica: Essays in Honor of Margaret Carney, O.S.F. <= Franciscan Studies 64 (2006)> pp. : 123-145;+
28. “Preface” to: Vita evangelica: Essays in Honor of Margaret Carney, O.S.F. <= Franciscan Studies 64 (2006)>, pp. v-viii;*
29. “Francis of Assisi, Deacon? An Examination of the Claims of the Earliest Franciscan Sources, 1229-1235” (“A Literary Apostolate: Franciscans, Lovers and Critics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. A Conference in Honor of John V. Fleming,” Princeton University, 21-22 April 2006, scheduled for E.J.Brill, 2008);+
30. “Preface” to: Jacques Dalarun, Francis of Assisi and the Question of Power (Franciscan Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 1-13;*
31. “To Do Penance / Facere poenitentiam,” The Cord 57 (2007): 3-24;+
32. “Where are ‘the Poor’ in the Writings of Angelo Clareno and the Spiritual Franciscans?” Angelo Clareno francescano, Atti del XXXIV Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 5-7 ottobre 2006, Società internazionale di studi francescani, (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2007), pp. 123-165;
33. “The Tau: The Meaning of the Cross for Francis of Assisi,” The Cord 57 (2007): 287-301;+
34. “The Letters to the Faithful,” Essays on the Franciscan Sources, Vol. I (St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2008);+
35. Review: Adam Davis, The Holy Bureaucrat: Eudes Rigaud and Religious Reform in Thirteenth-Century Normandy (Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 2006), in: Speculum, Vol. 82, no. 4 (October 2007): 976-78*
36. “Poverty,” Cambridge History of Philosophy, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2008);
37. “Healing the Violence of the World: Francis, the Crusades and Malik al-Kamil,” in: Spirit & Life, Volume 12 (forthcoming, 2008) [= “Francis of Assisi, the Crusades and Malik al-Kamil,” cf. no. 43, below];+
38. "From Damietta to La Verna”; in: Franciscans and Muslims in Dialogue, Spirit & Life, 12 (forthcoming, 2008);
39. “Who Destroyed Assisi?” Sewanee Symposium (April 2008);
40. “The Use of the Our Father among the Cathars: The Context for Francis of Assisi’s Expositio in Pater Noster,” Spirit & Life, 13 (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2008);
41. Review: John Tolan, Le Saint chez le Sultan: la rencontre de François d’Assise et de l’Islam. Huit siècles de’interprétation (Paris: Seuil, 2007), in: Le Moyen Age (2008/09);*
42. Review: Jacques Dalarun, La Légende Ombrienne de Francois d’Assise: vers une résolution de la question franciscaine (Paris: Cerf, 2007), in: Speculum (2009);*
43. [Untitled] Collected Essays, Volume I (Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2009); [collection will contain nos. 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 19, 21, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34 and 37a];
44. “The Sacrum commercium sancti Francisci cum domina Paupertate,” in Essays on the Franciscan Sources, Vol. II (St. Bonaventure, NY: FIP, 2009);
45. “The Chronicle of Jordan of Giano,” in: ibidem;
46. “The Umbrian Choir Legend, viewed from an Historical Perspective” (Roundtable: St. Bonaventure University, July 2008);
47. [article on the redaction of the Regula bullata], Festschrift (2009);
48. “L’Évangile chez François d’Assise,” Mélanges André Vauchez (Paris: 2009);
49. “The Growth and Development of the Franciscan Movement (1208-1226),” A Companion to St. Francis of Assisi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009);
50. Article on the Early Rule of the Friars Minor (conference: “1209-2009, The Rule of the Friars Minor: Historical Perspectives, Lived Realities,” St. Bonaventure University, April 16-17, 2009);
51. “The Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius,” in: Essays on the Franciscan Sources, Vol. VII (St. Bonaventure, NY: The Franciscan Institute, 2010);
52. [Untitled] Collected Essays, Volume II (Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2009/10).

• “Who Destroyed Assisi?” (Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 2008);
  series of essays for the handbook: Early Franciscan Sources (on: Sacrum commercium cum Domina Paupertate beati Francisci;
• Chronicle of Jordan of Giano;
• Deeds of Blessed Francis [=Actus beati Francisci]);
• essay in The Cambridge Companion to St. Francis of Assisi;
• essay in a festschrift in honor of André Vauchez (2009);
• essay: “Francis of Assisi and the Desire for Martyrdom;” book review: John V. Tolan, St. François et le sultan [Paris: Seuil, 2007] in: Le Moyen Age (2008).