Title
Francis of Assisi: The Prophet
Early Documents: Volume III
Price
$49.95 $39.96 (save 20%)
ISBN
978-1-56548-114-5
Page Count
892 pages
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About the book
The Prophet is the third volume of the long-awaited and best-selling project Francis of Assisi: Early Documents.
The Prophet contains:
- A Book of the Praises of Saint Francis by Bernard of Besse
- The Versified Life of Saint Francis by Henri d'Avranches
- A Collection of Sayings of the Companions of Blessed Francis
- The Tree of the Crucified Life of Jesus
- A Mirror of the Perfection
- The Book of Chronicles or of the Tribulations of the Order of Lesser Ones by Angelo Clareno
- The Deeds of Blessed Francis and His Companions by Ugolino Boniscambi
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
- Liturgical Texts for the Feast of the Stigmata of Saint Francis
- The Kinship of Saint Francis by Arnald of Sarrant
- Related Documents
Reviews
Although its painstaking introductions and annotations are intended for scholars, the readings themselves are as vibrant, accessible, instructive and charming as St. Francis himself must have been.
America
Endorsements
This is a magnificent collection of texts which illuminate the person of Saint Francis and the beginnings of the Franciscan Order. The translators provide a wonderful balance between fluent language and scholarly apparatus.
Brian Patrick McGuire
Roskilde University, Denmark