@book {348221, title = {Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages}, year = {2003}, note = {Reviews ". . . Kevin Madigan has taken a careful scholarly knowledge of a biblical commentary and worked it into a much bigger picture. He contextualizes Olivi{\textquoteright}s commentary in the history both of scriptural exegesis and of the mendicant-secular quarrels, especially over poverty, of the high Middle Ages. He employs his close reading to illuminate newly a much wider question, as all good scholarship should." {\textemdash} Speculum \  "Madigan ends by noting that Olivi{\textquoteright}s distinctive exegetical traits{\textemdash}occasional controversialism and muted Joachism{\textemdash}had no future, for the Franciscan exegete who called the late-medieval tune, Nicholas of Lyra, had absolutely no use for them. Madigan{\textquoteright}s book, however, will surely have a future because of its clarity and sovereign control of the material." {\textemdash}Robert Lerner,\  The Catholic Historical Review \  ". . . An important and needed contribution to the history of biblical interpretation." {\textemdash} The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXXVI, no.1, 2005 \  "It is . . . heartening to turn to this penetrating study of Peter John Olivi. . . . Madigan shows himself a very able scholar who works in the tradition of Beryl Smalley. . . . With Madigan{\textquoteright}s help, there are new reasons to benefit from the unique exegesis expounded by this gifted Franciscan friar from the land of langue d{\textquoteright}oc, who often enough said no to whatever he thought shortchanged the ideals of Jesus and Francis." {\textemdash} Cistercian Studies \  "For specialists in medieval exegesis and spirituality, it is important for the access it provides to Olivi{\textquoteright}s unedited and largely unstudied Matthew commentary and for the fascinating implications it teases out." {\textemdash} Religious Studies Review Buy Online}, publisher = {University of Notre Dame Press}, organization = {University of Notre Dame Press}, url = {http://undpress.nd.edu/books/P00881}, author = {Kevin Madigan} }