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  Title

  Francis of Assisi : a new biography

  Author

  Thompson, Augustine.  

  Publisher:

  Cornell University Press,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  x, 299 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780801450709

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    BX4700 .F6 T46 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780801450709 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0801450705 (cloth : alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Thompson, Augustine.

  Title:

  Francis of Assisi : a new biography / Augustine Thompson.

  Publication info:

  Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

  Physical description:

  x, 299 p. : map ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Life -- 1."When I Was in My Sins," 1181-1205 -- 2.The Penitent from Assisi, 1206-1209 -- 3.The Primitive Fraternity, 1209-1215 -- 4.Expansion and Consolidation, 1216-1220 -- 5.Francis Returns Home, 1220-1221 -- 6.Rules and Retirement, 1221-1223 -- 7.The Way of the Cross, 1223-1225 -- 8.From Penitent to Saint, 1225-1226 -- For Further Reading -- pt. II Sources and Debates Preliminary Note -- List of Abbreviations -- On the "Franciscan Question" -- On Chapter 1 -- On Chapter 2 -- On Chapter 3 -- On Chapter 4 -- On Chapter 5 -- On Chapter 6 -- On Chapter 7 -- On Chapter 8.

  Summary:

  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.

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  Personal subject:

  Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.

  Subject term:

  Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography.

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