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

Curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.

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

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