TY - GEN AU - Tolan, John Victor, ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Saint Francis and the sultan: the curio us history of a Christian-Muslim encounter PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford [U.K.], New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Francis, KW - Malik al-Kāmil Muḥammad, KW - Missions to Muslims KW - Egypt KW - Historiography KW - Christian hagiography KW - Christian art and symbolism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-372) and index; 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; Electronic text and image data; Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing; 2014; Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text; ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]); Mode of a ccess: Intranet UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31237 ER -