Saint Francis and the Sultan - Tolan

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Résumé :

• Introduction


• Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries


• 1: Francis, model for the spiritual renewal of the Church. Jaques de Vitry (1220 and 1223-25)


• 2: Al-K?mil, worthy adversary of the crusaders. An anonymous crusade chronicler. (1227-1229)


• 3: Great thirst for matyrdom. Thomas of Celano, Vita prima (1228)


• 4: Epic hero and eminent professor. Henry of Avraches (1229-1230)


• 5: Bearer of the precepts of life. The Bardi alterpiece (1240s)


• 6: Burning with a perfect love. Bonaventure, Legenda maior (1263)


• 7: Trial by fire. The Assisi fresco (late thirteenth century)


• 8: Father of the Spirituals. Angelo Clarenco (1329)


• 9: The sultan converted. The Deeds of Blessed Francis and his Companions (1327-1337)


• Fourteenth to twenty-first centuries


• 10: The trial by fire in painting and sculpture


• 11: The Saint of Assisi confronts barbarous infidelity, 16th and 17th centuries


• 12: Saint and Sultan seen by Philosophes and traditionalists, 18th century


• 13: Francis in Jerusalem


• 14: Francis, apostle of peace


• Epilogue