Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval SaintYale University Press, 2012 - 398 pagine First published in France, where it was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand, this masterful new biography of Francis is now available in English 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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Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint André Vauchez Anteprima non disponibile - 2012 |