At 12:26 PM 10/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
>One medievalist friend of mine (who was in Assisi just a week before the
>disaster) suggested it is Francis' revenge for the masses of incredibly
>tacky souvenirs sold (bearing his image) in the town. The ultimate
>Franciscan comment on rampant capitalism, perhaps? Regards, Terry
do you think that maybe some of the franciscan spirituals felt that way
about the church and the frescos when they first went up?
rlandes
Richard Landes
Boston University
History Department
Center for Millennial Studies
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