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Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / André Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato.
LIBRA BX4700.F6 V34313 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vauchez, André.
- Standardized Title:
- François d'Assise. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
- Francis.
- Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Italy--Assisi.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 398 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- Biographical sketch, 1182-1226
- Francesco di Bernardone
- Brother Francis: a layman in the Christianity of the early thirteenth century
- Death and transfiguration of Francis, 1226-1253
- Becoming Saint Francis, 1226-1230
- Second death of Francis, 1230-1253
- Images and myths of Francis of Assisi: from the Middle Ages to today
- Medieval interpretations of Francis: thirteenth to fourteenth centuries
- Francis between history and myth: sixteenth to twentieth centuries
- Originality of Francis and his charism
- Writings of Francis
- Experience of God
- New relationship to scripture: the spirit of the letter
- Francis, nature, and the world
- Francis and the church: the charism within the institution
- Gospel in the world: a transformation of religious anthropology
- Cultural mediator of a new religious sensibility
- Francis, prophet for his time... or for ours?
- Testament of Francis of Assisi, september 1226.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300178944
- 0300178948
- 9780300184921
- 0300184921
- OCLC:
- 759174485
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