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St Francis of Assisi: The Legend and the Life
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St Francis of Assisi is arguably the most popular, the most accessible and the best loved of all the saints.
Here, historian and theologian Michael Robson looks behind the myth and discovers a man, growing up in a particular time and place, deeply influenced by the people around him. Robson's Francis is not the idealised saint whose strings are pulled from above by an all-controlling God, but a man whose life's journey, with its struggles and doubts, loves and hates, was profoundly affected by his relationships with men and women in his own family, in the Church, and in his own city, and by the wider political context of thirteenth-century Europe. Who were these people? How was it forged, the legend of this man whose spiritual legacy to the world has proved so influential?
St Francis of Assisi is arguably the most popular, the most accessible and the best loved of all the saints.
Here, historian and theologian Michael Robson looks behind the myth and discovers a man, growing up in a particular time and place, deeply influenced by the people around him. Robson's Francis is not the idealised saint whose strings are pulled from above by an all-controlling God, but a man whose life's journey, with its struggles and doubts, loves and hates, was profoundly affected by his relationships with men and women in his own family, in the Church, and in his own city, and by the wider political context of thirteenth-century Europe. Who were these people? How was it forged, the legend of this man whose spiritual legacy to the world has proved so influential?
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