Franciscan Studies is a scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal published by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. It deals with Franciscan matters: history, philosophy, theology, and culture.

Articles in the latest edition: Volume 81, 2023:

• Retrieving Contuition in Saint Bonaventure — Junius Johnson
• Latin Lay Piety in an Islamic Context: The Development of the Third Order Community of St. Mary's of Mt. Sion in Mamluk Jerusalem — Jon Paul Heyne
• And Thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Elastic Self in the Moral Psychology of John Duns Scotus — Joseph Dowd
• Fashioning the "Order of Saint Clare." A Rule illuminated by Neri da Rimini: Princeton University Library MS 83 in context — Frances Andrews, Louise Bourdua
• Le prime quattro Collationes Parisienses sulle tracce di Giovanni Duns Scoto — Francesco Fiorentino
• Visions of Damietta: St. Francis, Robert Grosseteste, and the Crusades, 1219-1253 — Rosamund Gammie
• Innova dies nostros, sicut a principio: Novelty and Nostalgia in Thomas of Celano's First and Second Lives of St. Francis — Barbara Newman
• The Center Blossoms, Part 1: The Pneumatological Fruit of the Incarnate Word in Bonaventure's Breviloquium — Thomas A. Piolata, OFM Cap.

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Editorial Board Franciscan Studies 2024

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General and Managing Editor
Krijn Pansters, Ph.D., Tilburg University

Associate Editor
Aaron M. Gies, Ph.D., St. Bonaventure University 

Submission style sheet and author index

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Please use the links below to introduce yourself to the preferred editorial style of Franciscan Studies and to review a list of its contributing scholars through the decades. 

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