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Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint /
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 remem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st English ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300184921 0300184921 |