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 François 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
