About the Authors
- About the Authors
William Crozier is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, England. His Ph.D. thesis explores St. Bonaventure's thought on Christ's consciousness and how it can be used as an interpretative tool for his views on Aristotelianism and philosophy. He is currently editing and preparing for publication an edition of a series of quaestiones on color attributed to Bonaventure.
Gerard Pieter Freeman studied theology at Utrecht University and the Catholic Theological University in Utrecht. He specialized in the spirituality of Francis of Assisi and the history of his order. Between 1982 and 1998, he worked for the Dutch Franciscan Movement on the formation of a next generation of Franciscan lay people. Between 1985 and 2015 he coordinated the translations of the sources for the Franciscan spirituality in Dutch (nine volumes). His most popular book is the travel guide Umbrië in the voetsporen van Franciscus (Umbria in the footsteps of St. Francis) with five editions between 1994 and 2017. In 1992 he widened his focus to Clare of Assisi and the order of Poor Clares. His PhD deals with The Poor Clares in the thirteenth century (1997, in Dutch). In 1998 he was appointed on the endowed chair for Franciscan spirituality, theology and history at the Catholic Theological University in Utrecht that merged into the School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University in 2007. He was director of the Franciscan Study Center until 2014 and retired as professor in 2018. Since 2017 he is member of the Board of Regents of the Collegium S. Bonaventurae, the Research Institute of the Franciscans in Rome.
J. Isaac Goff is an instructor in theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Seminary. He has published on Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, Gregory Palamas, and Catholic/Orthodox ecumenical theology. His publications include Caritas in Primo: A Study of St. Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity (2015), co-editor of A Companion to Bonaventure (2014).
Michael Gonzalez is a Professor of History at the University of San Diego. Among other things, he wrote This Small City Will Be a Mexican Paradise: Exploring the Origins of Mexican Culture in Los Angeles, 1821-1846 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005) and teaches History of California, Chicano/a/x History, Cold War History, and History of the Middle East and Terrorism.
Eszter KonrÅd works in the National Széchényi Library of Hungary. She studied English and Italian language and literature at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After receiving an MA in the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University (Budapest), she defended there her doctoral dissertation in 2017 on the representations of the saints and blessed of the mendicant orders in medieval Hungary. Her main research interests include late medieval cult of saints, hagiography, and devotional literature composed in the vernacular (Hungarian, Italian, English). Currently she is working on a monograph based on her dissertation and participates in a research group at the Eötvös Loránd University preparing the edition of the principal Italian translations of the of the long version of the Meditationes vitae Christi.
Alison More is Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. Her research investigates the intersections between social and religious culture in Northern Europe from 1250 to 1650. Her particular interest is the creation of new religious movements. Her work has been published in Church History, and The Scottish Historical Review. Her most recent book, Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600, was published by Oxford University Press.
Krijn Pansters, Ph.D. (2007) in Medieval History, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Ph.D. (2019) in Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, teaches Church History and Spirituality at Tilburg University, Catholic School of Theology and Franciscan Study Center. He has published extensively on medieval mentality and religious thought. His publications include De kardinale deugden in de Lage Landen, 1200-1500 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2007), Franciscan Virtue: Spiritual Growth and the Virtues in Franciscan Literature and Instruction of the Thirteenth...
