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House's real achievement is to relate what he calls "the almost continual drama" of Francis's life to the political, social, economic, military and religious upheavals of 12th and 13th century Italy, not as though these were noises off to a larger drama, but in order to explain the culture that formed Francis, and expected his compliance to its mores--a culture that, to a great extent, he set about changing with ferocious energy and wit.
The picture of Francis that emerges, then, is far more complex and, of course, more fully realised than the hazy image that many hold in their heads from stories such as that of his preaching to the birds. He was not only the great orator and evangelist we think we know but also: soldier, poet (he wrote the first surviving poetry in Italian and is said to have inspired Dante away from Latin to the same), socialite, linguist, merchant, troubadour and ecologist. Notably, though educated he was no scholar, and comes across as an non-doctrinaire and unconventional man of action who was as hard on himself as he was on the feudal system that created so much poverty and suffering. In one story he eats some chicken while ill (he had malaria) and fasting. Thinking this self-indulgent, he drags himself into Assisi where he preaches from the pillory, strips naked and is led to the stocks on a rope to confess gluttony and deception before a shocked crowd. When his bones were exhumed in 1978 his skeleton showed signs of extreme malnutrition and osteoporosis. He died aged 44.
The bourgeois who embraced poverty; the soldier who preached peace; the snob who washed the wounds of lepers: there is hardly an incident in this absorbing biography that does not enlarge our understanding of Francis's vision of God's love lived out generously, like a diamond giving off "splinters that seem to differ according to the way they are struck by the light". --Anthony Wilson -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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