La 4e de couv. indique : "In this towering work, André Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as his own expertise in medieval hagiography to tell the most comprehensive and authoritative version of Franci…
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Chronicles the life and legacy of the famed Christian saint and places him in historical context by examining writings by contemporaries and noteworthy people. After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad texts -- ha…
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 …
"Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis's illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of ma…
"Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis's illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of ma…
Francis Overdiagnosed and Undiagnosed -- Recentring Illness and Infirmity in Francis' Lived Experience -- Et licet infirmus fuisset semper: Testimonies of Illnessin the Early Lives of St. Francis -- Disability and Tensions in Francis' Lived Experience -- The Hagiographers' Searc…
"Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis's illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of ma…
"Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis's illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of ma…
Being fiction and not a strict biography, [this book] is filled with embellishments of the history and myth of St. Francis.-Introd.
Portrays the saint as a great lover and inspiring leader, who embraced radical poverty in the face of many obstacles and temptations.
