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. The annual deadline for submitting articles is April 1.

Articles in the latest edition: Volume 83, 2025:

• The Codex brevior: For the Total Study of a Total Object — Jacques Dalarun
• The Nest of the Silver-Winged Dove: The Transmutation of Sacred Space at San Damiano in Assisi and the Eucharistic Culture of the Poor Clares — Michael Shane Harless
• Bonaventure's Reception of Avicenna's Psychology — Carl A. Vater
• Making an Entrance: Queen Marie of Brabant, Patterns of Familial Patronage, and the Abbey of Longchamp — Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Erica Nunn-Kinias and Sean L. Field
• The Conciliatory Strategy of Jean de Roquetaillade's Apocalyptic Alchemy, 1349-1350 — Samuel MacPhee
• Matthew of Agrigento: A Sicilian Bishop Between Royal Power, Urban Consortia, and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies (1442-1445) —  Antonio Mursia
• The Bosnian Vicariate in the Formative Phase of the Franciscan Observance: A Neglected Cradle? —  Pawet Cholewicki
• Framing the History of Witchcraft in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Peculiar Episode in the Life of the Bonaventure Scholar Benedetto Bonelli, OFM Ref (1704-1783) — Bert Roest
• How Metaphors Make a Martyr: The Franciscan Narrations on the Death of Fr. Silvester Padberg, OFM (1906-1938) — Patrick Felix Krüger and Knut Martin Stünkel
• The Drinking Bowel of St. Francis of Assisi in the Franciscan Museum DE MINDERE in Sint-Truiden (Belgium) — Jeroen Reyniers and Mark Van Strydonck 

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Editorial Board Franciscan Studies

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

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

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