Saint Francis and the sultan : the curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter /
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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Thirteenth to fourteenth centuries. 1. Francis, model for the spiritual renewal of the church: Jacques de Vitry (1220 and 1223-1225)
- 2. Al-Kamil, worthy adversary of the crusaders: anonymous Chronicle of the Crusade (1227-1229)
- 3. Great thirst for martyrdom: Thomas of Celano, Vita prima (1228)
- 4. Epic hero and eminent professor: Henry of Avranches (1229-1230)
- 5. Bearer of the precepts of life: the Bardi Dossal (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 Clareno (1326)
- 9. The sultan converted: the Deeds of Blessed Francis and his Companions (1327-1337)
- Part II. Fourteenth to twenty-first centuries. 10. Trial by fire in painting and sculpture
- 11. The Saint of Assisi confronts barbarous infidelity: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 12. Saint and sultan seen by Philosophes and traditionalists: eighteenth century
- 13. Francis in Jerusalem
- 14. Francis, apostle of peace.
