Beyond the Text
                                Franciscan Art and the Construction of Religion
                                                            
                                    
                                            Xavier Seubert 
                                            Oleg Bychkov 
                                    
                                
                            9781576595268
                                240 pages
                            The Franciscan Institute
                            
                            
                                        
                         
                        
                                
Overview
                                A pioneering studo of the ar of the Franciscan order that shows how Francisan theological, liturgical, pastoral and missionary strategies were formulated and implemented visually, not by works but by images, bu using contextualizaiton and introducing gender and culture specific visual traits