Nicolaus Minorita, Chronica. Documentation on Pope John XXII, Michael of Cesena and the Poverty of Christ, with summaries in English. A source book.(Review)

Nicolaus Minorita, Chronica. Documentation on Pope John XXII, Michael of Cesena and the Poverty of Christ, with summaries in English. A source book. Edited by Gedeon Gal OFM and David Flood OFM. Pp. 30* + 1238. New York: Franciscan Institute, St Bonaventure University, 1996. $68. I 57659 1182

The Chronicle of Nicolaus Minorita, identified by the editors of this volume as Nicholas of Freising, sectator et amicus fidelis of Michael of Gesena (p. 938), is a treasure store for the historian of the early fourteenth-century papacy, the empire and the Franciscan order. The chronicler provides a brief account of the immensely important controversy about apostolic poverty …