LEADER 04268nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910827610003321 005 20240416114157.0 010 $a0-8014-6473-0 010 $a0-8014-6426-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464263 035 $a(CKB)2670000000184732 035 $a(OCoLC)786129820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10545385 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11425327 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10643038 035 $a(PQKB)11230240 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138304 035 $a(DE-B1597)527351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464263 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138304 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10545385 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681839 035 $a(OCoLC)922998176 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000184732 100 $a20110907d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrancis of Assisi $ea new biography /$fAugustine Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50557-8 311 $a0-8014-5070-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $t[ Contents ] -- $t[ Introduction ] -- $t[ Part I ] The Life -- $t[ Part II ] Sources and Debates -- $t[ Bibliography ] -- $t[ Index ] 330 $aAmong the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death, followers collected, for their own purposes, numerous stories, anecdotes, and reports about Francis. As a result, the man himself and his own concerns became lost in legend.In this authoritative and engaging new biography, Augustine Thompson, O.P., sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint. Francis emerges from this account as very much a typical thirteenth-century Italian layman, but one who, when faced with unexpected crises in his personal life, made decisions so radical that they challenge his own society-and ours. Unlike the saint of legend, this Francis never had a unique divine inspiration to provide him with rules for following the teachings of Jesus. Rather, he spent his life reacting to unexpected challenges, before which he often found himself unprepared and uncertain. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies. His famed devotion to poverty is found to be more nuanced than expected, perhaps not even his principal spiritual concern. Thompson revisits events small and large in Francis's life, including his troubled relations with his father, his contacts with Clare of Assisi, his encounter with the Muslim sultan, and his receiving the Stigmata, to uncover the man behind the legends and popular images.A tour de force of historical research and biographical writing, Francis of Assisi: A New Biography is divided into two complementary parts-a stand alone biographical narrative and a close, annotated examination of the historical sources about Francis. Taken together, the narrative and the survey of the sources provide a much-needed fresh perspective on this iconic figure. "As I have worked on this biography," Thompson writes, "my respect for Francis and his vision has increased, and I hope that this book will speak to modern people, believers and unbelievers alike, and that the Francis I have come to know will have something to say to them today." 606 $aChristian saints$zItaly$zAssisi$vBiography 615 0$aChristian saints 676 $a271/.302 676 $aB 700 $aThompson$b Augustine$0163284 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827610003321 996 $aFrancis of Assisi$94073013 997 $aUNINA