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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Maria Pia Alberzoni is professor of medieval history at the Catholic University of Milan. She is well known for her publications on the Humiliati in Lombardy, on the Franciscans in Milan, on the papacy and religious women in the thirteenth centyr, and on Clare of Assisi and the Poor Sisters. Gerard Delahoussaye is assistant professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds a master's degree from Louisiana State University and a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa. Pietro Delcorno is a graduate student from the University of Bologna. He holds a BA and an MA in Theology from the Facoltà di Teologia dell'Emilia Romagna, and an MA in Italian Linguistics and Literary Civilizations from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation in Medieval History. Girard J. Etzkorn was born in St. Louis, Missori on Sept. 18, 1927. After his elementary education, he went to the University of Dayton, majoring in chemical engineering for 3 semesters after which he served in the Army Air Corps for a year before joining the Franciscans in 1949. He was ordained in 1956 and was sent to the Universite de Louvain where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 1961. Subsequently he taught philosophy to the Franciscan seminarians from 1961-1966 after which he was assigned to Quincy College where he taught philosophy from 1967-1971. He married Linda Niehaus in 1971 and obtained a one-year appointment at Southern Univesity of Illinois at Carbondale and subsquently joined the faculty of St. Bonaventure's Franciscan Institute where he worked on critical editions of Ockham and Scotus until his retirement in 1995. He continues to edit medieval texts, principally of Franciscan theologians while assisting younger colleagues in their efforts to gain expertise in things medieval. Robert J. Karris is General Editor of BTTS; research professor at SBU; editor of Bonaventure's Commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Luke, and John in BTTS. Alice Lamy has been teaching Latin in Paris for ten years. She is currently preparing the publication of her doctoral research in medieval philosophy on the quantitative principles of physics. She specializes in the study of statute of matter, from the Middle Ages to the beginning of Renaissance. Timothy J. Johnson is a German-American Fulbright Scholar and holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He also holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and a Diploma Litterarum Latinarum from the Pontifical Gregorian University, a Bachelor's in Sacred Theology from Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure, Rome, and a B.A. in Theology from St. Louis University. Dr. Johnson has taught in Europe and Africa. While his primary area of expertise is the history of Christian spirituality and theology, Dr. Johnson enjoys teaching courses as diverse as Religion and Film and Contemporary Theological Thought. Timothy B. Noone is a professor at the Catholic University of America and is the former director of the Center of Medieval and Byzantine Studies. He earned a B.A. in History at Lock Haven State University, an M.A. in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, the M.S.L. in Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto and his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include Metaphysics in the High Middle Ages, the History of Franciscan Philosophy, the History of Medieval Philosophy in the 13th and 14th Centuries and Ancient Philosophy. Letizia Pellegrini is professor of history of Christianity at the university of Macerata. For several decades she has been studying the history, the culture and the hagiography of the Mendicant Orders with particular attention to preaching, libraries and processes of canonization.