The Image of St Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century

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Cambridge University Press, 30 lis 2006 - 524
An important new study of the way in which St Francis's image was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. St Francis was a man whose personality was deliberately stamped on his Order and Rosalind Brooke explores how the stories told by Francis's companions were at once brilliantly vivid portrayals of the man as well as guides to how the Franciscan way of life ought to be led. She also examines how after St Francis's death a great monument was erected to him in the Basilica at Assisi and how this came to reflect in stone and stained glass and fresco the manner in which some Popes and leading friars believed his memory should be fostered. Highly illustrated throughout, including colour and black and white plates, this book will be essential reading for medievalists and art historians as well as anyone interested in St Francis and the Franciscan movement.

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INTRODUCTION
1
The Image
3
Dawn?
6
THE IMAGE IN LIFE
13
The Impression Francis made on contemporaries
19
THE IMAGE AFTER DEATH
31
Elias letter
33
The papal bull of canonisation
36
The Sacrum Commercium
157
VISUAL IMAGES
160
Pescia altar panel
168
The Pisa altar panel
172
The Assisi altar panel
173
The Bardi altar panel
176
Matthew Paris
192
Kalenderhane Camii
202

Thomas of Celanos First Life of St Francis
39
THE OFFICIAL IMAGE IN STONE THE BASILICA OF ST FRANCIS ATASSISI
51
Progress of the building and its date
56
Furnishing the Basilica
62
The Inspiration of the Basilica
64
Gregory IX
65
Innocent IV
66
Sources of inspiration
68
The functions of the double church
70
Conclusionthe image
73
THE AUTHORITY OF ST FRANCIS EXPOSITIONS OF THE RULE
77
The Exposition of the Four Masters
78
Hugh of Digne
81
The bull Ordinem vestrum
86
The sources and characteristics of Hughs Exposition of the Rule
91
The bull Exiit qui seminat
96
REMINISCENCES THE CONVERGENCE OF UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL IMAGES IN WRITING
102
The writings of Leo Rufino and Angelo
104
The image of St Francis as presented by Leo Rufino and Angelo
117
The Anonymous of Perugia
127
Thomas of Celanos Second Life of St Francis
138
The Legend of the Three Companions
147
The image of St Francis presented by the Legend of the Three Companions
149
THE OFFICIAL IMAGE IN SPEECH AND WRITING
218
St Bonaventure
231
The Legenda Maior OF St Bonaventure
242
The Miracles of St Francis
269
THE OFFICIAL VISUAL IMAGE THE DECORATION OF THE BASILICA
280
The decoration of the Lower Church
281
Virgin and child enthroned with angels and St Francis
302
The decoration of the Upper Church
304
The stained glass windows in the Upper Church
307
The decoration of apse and transepts
332
Cimabue
342
The four Evangelists
344
The decoration of the sanctuary walls
353
The decoration of the nave of the Upper Church
365
The St Francis Cycle
378
Dating the decoration of the nave
415
Nicholas IV
439
THE REDISCOVERY OF ST FRANCIS BODY
454
Reconstruction of St Francis interment
464
ANGELA OF FOLIGNOS IMAGE OF ST FRANCIS
472
Bibliography
489
Index
507
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Dr Rosalind Brooke is a senior member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her publications include The Coming of the Friars (1975) and Popular Religion in the Middle Ages (with C. N. L. Brooke, 1984).

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