Francesco

Sarah and guest Miti von Weissenberg explore sanctity and voluntary poverty in 1989 film Francesco! Join us as we delve into the real lives of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, the intertwined histories of the Franciscans and the Poor Clares, and the link between biopic and hagiography.

Learn more about Miti’s research and teaching: https://www.xavier.edu/history-department/directory/marita-vonweissenberg

Learn more about St. Francis of Assisi and his legacy:
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. Edited by Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellman, and William J. Short. New York: New City Press, 1999-2001 
Moorman, John R. H. A history of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to the Year 1517. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
Vauchez, André, translated by Michael F. Cusato. Francis of Assisi : The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint. Yale University Press, 2012  
The Cambridge companion to Francis of Assisi. Edited by Michael J.P. Robson
Thompson, Augustine. Francis of Assisi : A New Biography. Cornell University Press, 2012. 
Appelbaum, Patricia. St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint. Chapel Hill: university of North Carolina Press, 2015. 

Learn more about St. Clare of Assisi:
 Mooney, Catherine M. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 
Mueller, Joan. The privilege of poverty : Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the struggle for a Franciscan rule for women. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.

Learn more about Franciscan spirituality:
Ahlgren, Gillian T.W. The Tenderness of God: Reclaiming our Humanity. Lanham: Fortress Press, 2017.  

Learn more about medieval sanctity:
Bartlett, Robert. Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? : Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 
Vauchez, André. The Laity in the Middle Ages : Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
Vauchez, André. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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