Sarum College is pleased to announce that Dr Michael Hahn has been invited to join the editorial board of Franciscan Studies as a senior editor.
The peer-reviewed journal, Franciscan Studies, is the leading Anglophone journal dedicated to publishing academic research related to the Franciscan movement. With the first volume being published in 1924, over the last hundred years, Franciscan Studies has been at the heart of a range of scholarly conversations, bringing together theologians, historians, philosophers, literary critics and scholars from other disciplines in the arts and humanities.
The field of study related to the Franciscan movement has a wide scope and, broadly speaking, examines the figures and texts belonging to or connected with any of the orders thought to have been founded by Francis (even when the orders were not actually founded by him), and the institutional history of such orders. Many of the articles are historical in focus, but some also focus on the modern Franciscan family of orders.
Michael’s research focuses on four figures from the thirteenth century who could broadly be described as Franciscans – Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, Bonaventure and Angela of Foligno. He has examined many of the theological tropes and linguistic tools in their writings, the legendary narratives circulating about them, and the ways we can retrieve their voices in theology today. Michael is currently finalising his monograph Bonaventure, Angela of Foligno and the Mystical Theologies of Early Franciscans: Emptying, Annihilation and Deification, and recently began work on a four-year project on Angela’s reception history for which he was awarded €427,060 of research council funding alongside John Arblaster (University of Antwerp).
Michael commented “Franciscan Studies is the premier journal in the Anglophone world studying the Franciscan traditions, so it is really an honour to be asked to serve on its editorial board. In many ways, we are at a decisive point in the history of the discipline of Franciscan studies, and so it is fantastic to have the chance to, in some small way, shape how the field is developing in the English-speaking world and beyond. The new board is hoping to open up conversations happening around the nature of our discipline and to be ever increasingly a place in which such conversations can take place.”
Michael leads the Postgraduate Programmes in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College, principally the Postgraduate Certification, Postgraduate Diploma and MA programmes in Christian Spirituality, validated by the University of Winchester. The programmes focus on both the historical study of the traditions of Christian spirituality and contemporary questions about how spirituality is lived out and practised today, and students can opt to focus on one or the other, or to delve into both aspects. There are plentiful opportunities to study the Franciscan traditions within this programme.
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