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1 online resource (xvi, 382 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-372) and index |
| In |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. |
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
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Malik al-Kāmil Muḥammad, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1180?-1238.
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 -- Art.
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 fast |
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Malik al-Kāmil Muḥammad, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1180?-1238 fast |
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Missions to Muslims -- Egypt -- Historiography
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Christian hagiography.
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Christian art and symbolism.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Christian art and symbolism
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Christian hagiography
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Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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Electronic book
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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