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Saint Francis and the sultan [electronic resource] : the curio us history of a Christian-Muslim encounter / John Tolan.

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Tolan, John Victor, 1959-

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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.Description: xvi, 382 p. : ill. ; 25 cmOther title:

Curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter

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Part I. Thirteenth to fourteenth centuries. 1. Francis, model for th e spiritual renewal of the church: Jacques de Vitry (1220 and 1223-1225 ) -- 2. Al-Kamil, worthy adversary of the crusaders: anonymous Chronicl e of the Crusade (1227-1229) -- 3. Great thirst for martyrdom: Thomas o f Celano, Vita prima (1228) -- 4. Epic hero and eminent professor: Henr y of Avranches (1229-1230) -- 5. Bearer of the precepts of life: the Ba rdi Dossal (1240s) -- 6. Burning with a perfect love: Bonaventure, Lege nda maior (1263) -- 7. Trial by fire: the Assisi fresco (late thirteent h 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.

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

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