Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art [electronic resource] /
Ho, Cynthia.editor.
Mulvaney, Beth A.editor.
Downey, John K.editor.
Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Editors' Preface; Finding Francis: An Invitation; Part I: Francis in Medieval Text and Painting; 1 Standing on the Threshold: Beholder and Vision in the Assisi Crib at Greccio; 2 Bearing Witness: The Physical Expression of the Spiritual in the Narrative Cycle at Assisi; 3 Francis Preaching to the Sultan: Art and Literature in the Hagiography of the Saint; 4 The Wolf in the Forest: St. Francis and the Italian Eremitical Tradition; 5 What Has Paris to do with Assisi? The Theological Creation of a Saint; Part II: Francis Remembered in New Contexts; 6 Franciscans in the New World
7 The Visual Piety of the Sacro Monte di OrtaPlate Sections; 8 A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint François d'Assise; 9 Constructing Saint Francis for the Twenty-First Century; 10 Capturing the Gravity and Grace of St. Francis of Assisi on Stage: A Meditation on Word and Image; 11 St. Francis in the Twenty-First Century; 12 Canticle of Memory: Political Theology and Francis of Assisi; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; W
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period.
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Literature, Medieval.
Arts.
Literature-History and criticism.
Medieval Literature.
Arts.
Literary History.