TY - BOOK AU - Franco,Bradley AU - Mulvaney,Beth TI - The World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook T2 - The Medieval Franciscans Series SN - 9789004290280 AV - BX4700.F6 .W67 2015 U1 - 271/.302 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Francis,-of Assisi, Saint,-1182-1226-Influence KW - Cook, William R.-(William Robert),-1943- KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- The World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The World of St. Francis -- 1 "You are Simple and Stupid": Francis of Assisi and the Rise of Merchant Capitalism -- 2 The Functions of Early Franciscan Art -- 3 Francis, the Sultan, and Reading an Image in Context -- 4 Trial by Fire: St. Francis and the Sultan in Italian Art -- 5 Illness and Imagination: The Healing Miracles of Clare of Montefalco -- 6 Elevated Vision: Bellini's Annunciation and the Nuns at Santa Maria dei Miracoli -- 7 Fraternal (Un)Masking: Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Dante's Inferno 27 -- 8 The Pilgrimage of the Wolf: St. Francis as Peacemaker in Gubbio and Nicaragua -- 9 The Wolf of Gubbio in Context: The Igreja da Pampulha, Brazil -- 10 Histories of the Present: Interpreting the Poverty of St. Francis -- 11 Eyes Wide Open: Francis of Assisi and the Duty of Poverty -- 12 Creation and Community Consciousness: Il Poverello's Intercultural and Intergenerational Insights and Inspiration -- 13 My Life with Francis -- Select Bibliography -- Index N2 - In The World of St. Francis of Assisi, thirteen scholars from diverse academic disciplines offer accounts of the way in which St. Francis shaped the world in which he lived and trace the saint's legacy in the intervening seven centuries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1981295 ER -