The book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition.

Preface: Xavier Seubert and Oleg Bychkov; (1) "Images of Gospel Life: The Letter Visualized": John V. Fleming, Princeton University; (2) "Bonaventure and the Maestro di San Francesco": John Renner, Courtauld Institute of Art, London; (3) "Sensory Engagement and Contemplative Transformation in Cimabue's Assisi Transepts": Holly Flora, Tulane University; (4) "Likeness and Compassion in Franciscan Art: A Late Medieval Theory of Compassion and Naturalism in Frescoes in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi attributed to Giotto's Workshop": Theresa Flanigan, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; (5) "The Senses and the Soul's Re-formation in the Supplicationes variae": Amy Neff, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; (6) "The Lignum Vitae in New Spain": Cristina Cruz González, Oklahoma State University; (7) "The Perscrutator in the Hidden Depths of Franciscan Architectural Space": Erik Gustafson, George Mason University; (8) "Experiencing God through Music in Franciscan Imagery (With New Observations on Botticelli's St. Francis Flanked by Music-making Angels and an Initial G by the Master of the Budapest Antiphonary)": Roberto Cobianchi, Università degli Studi di Messina; (9) "Activating the Senses, Preparing the Soul: Illuminated Antiphonaries for Franciscan Use in Late Medieval Italy": Trinita Kennedy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; (10) "Touch, Sight, and the Patched Franciscan Habit": Cordelia Warr, University of Manchester; (11) "The Habit Francis Wore on Mount La Verna. Francis of Assisi-'Living Shroud'": Carla Salvati, John Abbott College, Montreal; (12) "Franciscan Art and Somaesthetic Devotion in the Italian Renaissance Holy Lands: Simming and the Production of Empathy at Varallo and San Vivaldo": Allie Terry-Fritsch, Bowling Green State University; (13) "Art and the Sensory Experience of God in the Franciscan Missions of Upper California": Pamela Jill Huckins, Southern New Hampshire University; (14) "Following in the Footsteps of Christ: Uses of the Via Crucis in Colonial Quito": Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; (15) "Engaging the Senses: the Pilgrimage Shrine of Santuario de Chimayó in Northern New Mexico": William Wroth, Independent Scholar, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (16) "The status of sensory and aesthetic experience in fourteenth-century Franciscan theology, from Peter Aureol to Adam Wodeham": Oleg Bychkov, St. Bonaventure University; (17) "The Iconization of St. Francis of Assisi": Xavier Seubert, OFM, Christ the King Seminary