Saint Francis of Assisi

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Francis of Assisi between the renewal and restraints of feudal society 1 2 In search of the true Saint Francis 13 In quest of the true Saint Francis 13 Saint Francis in his writings 14 The problem of the biographies 17 Life of Saint Francis 23 The conversion 25 From the first to the second Rule 30 Francis and Innocent III 31 Saint Clare 35 Miracles and peregrinations 36 The Fourth Lateran Council 38 The Regula bullata 41 Towards death 42 The works and the legacy 46 Saint Francis: medieval or modern? 52 The vocabulary of social categories in Saint Francis of Assisi and his thirteenth-century biographers Definition and scope of the research 65 Elements of the vocabulary of social categories Interpretative essay 86 Franciscanism and cultural models of the thirteenth century Models related to space and time 99 Models related to the evolution of the economy 104 Models related to the structure of global or civil society Models related to the structure of religious society 113 Models related to culture in a narrow sense 115 Models of behaviour and sensibility 120 Ethical and religious models in the strict sense 124 Traditional models of the sacred 127 Conclusion 129