Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval 1st Edition by Saint Vauchez ISBN 978-0300198379 ‎ 030019837X

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ISBN 10: ‎ 030019837X

ISBN 13:  978-0300198379

Author:  Saint Vauchez

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, 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 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.

Table of contents: 

Part I: A Biographical Sketch, 1182–1226
 2. Chapter 1. Francesco di Bernardone
 3. Chapter 2. Brother Francis: A Layman in the Christianity of the Early Thirteenth Century

Part II: Death and Transfiguration of Francis, 1226–1253
 5. Chapter 3. Becoming Saint Francis, 1226–1230
 6. Chapter 4. The “Second Death” of Francis, 1230–1253

Part III: Images and Myths of Francis of Assisi: From the Middle Ages to Today
 8. Chapter 5. Medieval Interpretations of Francis: Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
 9. Chapter 6. Francis between History and Myth: Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Part IV: The Originality of Francis and His Charism
 11. The Writings of Francis
 12. Chapter 7. The Experience of God
 13. Chapter 8. A New Relationship to Scripture: The Spirit of the Letter
 14. Chapter 9. Francis, Nature, and the World
 15. Chapter 10. Francis and the Church: The Charism within the Institution
 16. Chapter 11. The Gospel in the World: A Transformation of Religious Anthropology
 17. Chapter 12. A Cultural Mediator of a New Religious Sensibility

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