At 04:55 PM 5/13/97 -0400, John Wickstrom wrote:
>Yes, of course I know Moorman, but I was thinking, I guess, of some
>references to more recent Italian work, that attempts to more radically
>interpret the life of Francis, paying attention for instance to the
>problematic character of the stigmata, the possible Jewish background to
>the family as a source of friction, material that I don't know has been
>gathered in a place convention to non-Italian readers (or pretty stumbling
>Italian readers) such as myself.
>
>
It's not Italian, but there's an interesting treatment of Francis in Aviad
Kleinberg's *Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of
Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages* (U. Chicago Press, 1992).
Sherry Reames (English Dept., U. Wisconsin)
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