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Francis of Assisi - The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint (Paperback)
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Francis of Assisi - The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint (Paperback)
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First published in France, where it was awarded the Prix
Chateaubriand, this masterful new biography of Francis is now
available in English In this towering work, Andre 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 Francis's life and afterlife published in the past half
century. 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 Francis's own writings, which strangely
enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters. The
product of a lifetime of study, this book reveals a historian at
the height of his powers.
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