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Tables of Contents for Saint Francis of Assisi
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
vii
 
Preface to the French edition
ix
 
Chronology
xiii
 
Selected writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
xvii
 
1 Francis of Assisi between the renewal and restraints of feudal society
1
12
2 In search of the true Saint Francis
13
50
In quest of the true Saint Francis
13
1
Saint Francis in his writings
14
3
The problem of the biographies
17
6
Life of Saint Francis
23
2
The conversion
25
5
From the first to the second Rule
30
1
Francis and Innocent III
31
4
Saint Clare
35
1
Miracles and peregrinations
36
2
The Fourth Lateran Council
38
3
The Regula bullata
41
1
Towards death
42
4
The works and the legacy
46
6
Saint Francis: medieval or modern?
52
11
3 The vocabulary of social categories in Saint Francis of Assisi and his thirteenth-century biographers
63
34
Definition and scope of the research
65
7
Elements of the vocabulary of social categories
72
14
Interpretative essay
86
11
4 Franciscanism and cultural models of the thirteenth century
97
35
Models related to space and time
99
5
Models related to the evolution of the economy
104
4
Models related to the structure of global or civil society
108
5
Models related to the structure of religious society
113
2
Models related to culture in a narrow sense
115
5
Models of behaviour and sensibility
120
4
Ethical and religious models in the strict sense
124
3
Traditional models of the sacred
127
2
Conclusion
129
3
Notes
132
24
Bibliography
156