Introduction (Timothy J. Johnson) -- Editorial Note -- EARLY WITNESSES -- Prayer in the Writings of Francis of Assisi and the Early Brothers (Michael W. Blastic) -- Clare of Assisi and the Mysticism of Motherhood (Ilia Delio) -- Prayer in the Life of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano (J.A. Wayne Hellmann) -- CONTEMPLATION AND THE ACADEMY -- The Prothemes of Bonaventure's Sermones dominicales and Minorite Prayer (Timothy J. Johnson) -- Contemplation and the Formation of the vir spiritualis in Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaemeron (Jay M. Hammond) -- Fides quaerens intellectum: John Duns Scotus, Philosophy and Prayer (Mary Beth Ingham) -- MYSTICISM, ORTHODOXY AND POLEMICS -- Angela of Foligno's Spiral Pattern of Prayer (Diane V. Tomkinson) -- Singing with Angels: Iacopone da Todi's Prayerful Rhetoric (Alessandro Vettori) -- Just talking about God: Orthodox Prayer, among the Heretical Beguins (Louisa A. Burnham) -- Friar Alonso de Espina, Prayer and Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian Polemical Literature (Steven J. McMichael) -- PORTALS TO THE SACRED -- Illi qui volunt religiose stare in eremis: Eremitical Practice in the Life of the Early Franciscans (Jean François Godet-Calogeras) -- At Prayer in the Shadow of the Tree of Life (Amanda D. Quantz) -- Byzantine Icons, Franciscan Prayer: Images of Intercession and Ascent in the Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi (Amy Neff) -- TRADITIONS IN TIME -- Franciscan Liturgical Prayer (Edward Foley) -- The Discipline of the Heart: Pedagogies of Prayer in Medieval Franciscan Works of Religious Instruction (Bert Roest) -- From Contemplation to Inquisition: The Franciscan Practice of Recollection in Sixteenth-Century Spain (William J. Short) -- Contributors -- Index.