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Record Nr.

UNISA996247974803316

Autore

Tolan John Victor <1959->

Titolo

Saint Francis and the sultan : the curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter / / John Tolan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-23503-6

9786612235030

0-19-156749-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

261.2/709022

Soggetti

Missions to Muslims - Egypt - Historiography

Christian hagiography

Christian art and symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-372) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. THIRTEENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES; II. FOURTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-K--acirc--;mil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how they reveal the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since. - ;In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-K--acirc--;mil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented arti