Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint /
Vauchez, André.
Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / André Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato. - 1st English ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad texts -- hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc. -- of writers who recorded aspects of Francis's life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. We see varying versions of his life reflected in the work of Machiavelli, Luther, Voltaire, German and English romantics, pre-Raphaelites, Italian nationalists, and Mussolini, and discover how peace activists, ecologists, or interreligious dialogists have used his example to promote their various causes. Particularly noteworthy is the attention Vauchez pays to Francisʹs own writings, which strangely enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters. -- Publisher description.
Translated from the French.
9780300184921 0300184921
10.12987/9780300184921 doi
22573/ctt110j4r JSTOR 889E6113-933C-41F0-8186-06D97C24516D OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Franciscus Assisiensis, santo, circa 1181-1226
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
Christian saints
Italy--Assisi
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
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Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / André Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato. - 1st English ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad texts -- hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc. -- of writers who recorded aspects of Francis's life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. We see varying versions of his life reflected in the work of Machiavelli, Luther, Voltaire, German and English romantics, pre-Raphaelites, Italian nationalists, and Mussolini, and discover how peace activists, ecologists, or interreligious dialogists have used his example to promote their various causes. Particularly noteworthy is the attention Vauchez pays to Francisʹs own writings, which strangely enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters. -- Publisher description.
Translated from the French.
9780300184921 0300184921
10.12987/9780300184921 doi
22573/ctt110j4r JSTOR 889E6113-933C-41F0-8186-06D97C24516D OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Franciscus Assisiensis, santo, circa 1181-1226
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
Christian saints
Italy--Assisi
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
BX4700.F6 / V34313 2012eb
271/.302 B