Introduction
Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
1: Francis, model for the spiritual renewal of the Church. Jaques
de Vitry (1220 & 1223-25)
2: Al-Kâmil, worthy adversary of the crusaders. An anonymous
crusade chronicler. (1227-1229)
3: Great thirst for matyrdom. Thomas of Celano, Vita prima
(1228)
4: Epic hero and eminent professor. Henry of Avraches
(1229-1230)
5: Bearer of the precepts of life. The Bardi alterpiece (1240s)
6: Burning with a perfect love. Bonaventure, Legenda maior
(1263)
7: Trial by fire. The Assisi fresco (late thirteenth century)
8: Father of the Spirituals. Angelo Clarenco (1329)
9: The sultan converted. The Deeds of Blessed Francis and his
Companions (1327-1337)
Fourteenth to twenty-first centuries
10: The trial by fire in painting and sculpture
11: The Saint of Assisi confronts barbarous infidelity, 16th and
17th centuries
12: Saint and Sultan seen by Philosophes and traditionalists, 18th
century
13: Francis in Jerusalem
14: Francis, apostle of peace
Epilogue
John V. Tolan was educated at Yale and Chicago. He has taught at universities in North America and Europe and is currently Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nantes. He has published widely in both French and English, including most recently Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002).
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