About the Book:PART I: Francis in Medieval Text and Painting * Franciscan Spirituality and Narrative at Assisi: The Legend of St. Francis in Text and Painting – Beth Mulvaney * The Miraculous Moment: Expressing the Spiritual Experience in Thirteenth-Century Frescos at Assisi – Janet Snyder * Francis Preaching to the Sultan: Art in the Hagiography of a Saint – Mahmood Ibrahim * PART II: Franciscan Devotion * The Wolf in the Forest: St. Francis and the Italian Eremitical Tradition – Rodger Payne * What Has Paris to Do with Assisi? The Theological Creation of a Saint – John V. Apczynski * Franciscans in the World – Felix Heap and Jesus Gonzales * The Visual Piety of the Sacro Monte di Orta – Cynthia Ho * PART III: Francis Remembered in New Contexts * A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint Franois d’Assise – John McClain * Constructing Saint Francis for the Twenty-first Century – Janet McCann * Capturing the Gravity and Grace of St. Francis of Assisi on Stage: A Study of Divine Reciprocity – John Bowers * St. Francis in the Twenty-first Century – John Hart * Canticle of Memory: Political Theology and Francis of Assisi – John Downey