Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
André Vauchez
First published in France, where it was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand, this masterful new biography of Francis is now available in English
In this towering work, André Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as his own expertise in medieval hagiography to tell the most comprehensive and authoritative version of Francis’s life and afterlife published in the past half century.
After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad texts—hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.—of writers who ... Read more
The product of a lifetime of study, this book reveals a historian at the height of his powers.
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William Chester Jordan “For thirty years, we have been waiting for a new scholarly biography of Francis of Assisi. André Vauchez offers us that and so much more. Not only does ... Read more