Ways to represent violence and conflict in the Liber Chronicarum by Angelo Clareno

Abstract

When we think about the message of Francis of Assisi, we associate his Christian message to a message of peace and tolerance, a return to the ideals and primitive practices of the Gospels. However, throughout the history of the Order of Friars Minor, we can see that many of the situations of tension and/or conflict ended with the manifestation of representations and practices less peaceful. Think about the “violence” as a cross-cutting theme requires the use of semantic issues, ways of narrating conflicts; then the determination of the antagonists fields, identification of violent / peaceable acts, the construction of the actors in those situations, among others, allow to reveal the various modes of relationship between the persons and the construction of a specific identity. The purpose of this work is to investigate the different meanings that the term tribulatio have in the Angelo Clareno’s work, and to analyze what kind of relationship we can establish with narrated violence.