Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art

Chapter 1 Finding Francis: An Invitation

Chapter 2 Standing on the Threshold: Beholder and Vision in the Assisi Crib at Greccio

Chapter 3 Bearing Witness: The Physical Expression of the Spiritual in the Narrative Cycle at Assisi

Chapter 4 Francis Preaching to the Sultan: Art and Literature in the Hagiography of the Saint

Chapter 5 The Wolf in the Forest: St. Francis and the Italian Eremitical Tradition

Chapter 6 What has Paris to do with Assisi? The Theological Creation of a Saint

Chapter 7 Franciscans in the New World

Chapter 8 The Visual Piety of the Sacro Monte Di Orta

Chapter 9 A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint François D’assise

Chapter 10 Constructing Saint Francis for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 11 Capturing the Gravity and Grace of St. Francis of Assisi on Stage: A Meditation on Word and Image

Chapter 13 Canticle of Memory: Political Theology and Francis of Assisi