Geraldus Odonis, Franciscan Minister General and Scholar: The Life and Thought of a Controversial Friar.

A biography of Gerald Odonis, the Franciscan Minister General, is presented. He was born between 1285 and 1290 in Camboulit village in France and studied law at Montpellier in France. He then joined the Franciscan order by serving three popes including John XXII. It discusses how he had died at Catania, due to Black Death. It looks at biographers who couldn't honor Odonis and how scholar Anneliese Maier in his biography projected Odonis as a clever philosopher.