Francis Of Assisi: The Wandering Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At once a portrait of holy rebellion and a chronicle of one of history's most captivating spiritual journeys, Anthony Mockler's Francis of Assisi: The Wandering Years reconstructs the turbulent early life of the medieval world's most beloved saint. Set against the vivid backdrop of 12th and 13th-century Italy — a landscape of feuding city-states, crusading armies, and profound religious upheaval — the narrative follows the young Francis Bernardone from his carefree days as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant through his radical renunciation of wealth, his mystical conversion, and his restless wanderings across Europe and the Holy Land. Mockler presents Francis not as a plaster saint but as a complex, contradictory, and utterly human figure whose charisma drew thousands to his cause. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, the work situates Francis within the broader currents of medieval Christendom, illuminating the social and ecclesiastical tensions that made his message of poverty and brotherhood so explosive for its time. Mockler's prose is authoritative yet richly accessible, weaving primary sources and historical scholarship into a narrative that reads with the urgency of a biography and the depth of serious history. For anyone who has ever wondered what drove a privileged young man to strip himself bare in a public square and walk away singing — this book holds the answer.
Author: Anthony Mockler
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At once a portrait of holy rebellion and a chronicle of one of history's most captivating spiritual journeys, Anthony Mockler's Francis of Assisi: The Wandering Years reconstructs the turbulent early life of the medieval world's most beloved saint. Set against the vivid backdrop of 12th and 13th-century Italy — a landscape of feuding city-states, crusading armies, and profound religious upheaval — the narrative follows the young Francis Bernardone from his carefree days as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant through his radical renunciation of wealth, his mystical conversion, and his restless wanderings across Europe and the Holy Land. Mockler presents Francis not as a plaster saint but as a complex, contradictory, and utterly human figure whose charisma drew thousands to his cause. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, the work situates Francis within the broader currents of medieval Christendom, illuminating the social and ecclesiastical tensions that made his message of poverty and brotherhood so explosive for its time. Mockler's prose is authoritative yet richly accessible, weaving primary sources and historical scholarship into a narrative that reads with the urgency of a biography and the depth of serious history. For anyone who has ever wondered what drove a privileged young man to strip himself bare in a public square and walk away singing — this book holds the answer.