Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Finding Francis: An Invitation....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Standing on the Threshold: Beholder and Vision in the Assisi Crib at Greccio....Pages 23-34
Bearing Witness: The Physical Expression of the Spiritual in the Narrative Cycle at Assisi....Pages 35-45
Francis Preaching to the Sultan: Art and Literature in the Hagiography of the Saint....Pages 47-61
The Wolf in the Forest: St. Francis and the Italian Eremitical Tradition....Pages 63-77
What has Paris to do with Assisi? The Theological Creation of a Saint....Pages 79-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Franciscans in the New World....Pages 97-108
The Visual Piety of the Sacro Monte Di Orta....Pages 109-127
A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint François D’assise....Pages 129-137
Constructing Saint Francis for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 139-148
Capturing the Gravity and Grace of St. Francis of Assisi on Stage: A Meditation on Word and Image....Pages 149-162
St. Francis in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 163-181
Canticle of Memory: Political Theology and Francis of Assisi....Pages 183-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-209