Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 255 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781487536190
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Francis Overdiagnosed and Undiagnosed -- Chapter Two Recentring Illness and Infirmity in Francis’ Lived Experience -- Chapter Three Et licet infirmus fuisset semper: Testimonies of Illness in the Early Lives of Francis -- Chapter Four Disability and Tensions in Francis’ Lived Experience -- Chapter Five The Hagiographers’ Search for Meaning -- Chapter Six On Disability, Power, and Gender: A Speculative Conclusion -- Postscript: On the Importance of Disability as a Category of Analysis -- Appendix Recentring Illness: A Revised Chronology of Francis’ Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis’s illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of masculine authority within both the Franciscan Order he founded and the church hierarchy. So concerned were members of the Franciscan leadership that the future saint was compelled to seek out medical treatment and spent the last two years of his life in the nearly constant care of doctors. Unlike other studies of Francis’s ailments, Illness and Authority focuses on the impact of his illnesses on his autonomy and secular power, rather than his spiritual authority. From downplaying the comfort Francis received from music to disappearing doctors in the narratives of his life, early biographers worked to minimize the realities of his infirmities. When they could not do so, they turned the saint’s experiences into teachable moments that demonstrated his saintly and steadfast devotion and his trust in God. Illness and Authority explores the struggles that early authors of Francis’s vitae experienced as they tried to make sense of a saint whose life did not fit the traditional rhythms of a founder-saint
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487507411
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Trembinski, Donna, 1974 - Illness and authority Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2020 ISBN 9781487507411
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1487507410
Language:
English
Keywords:
Franz von Assisi, Heiliger 1182-1226
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Behinderung
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Franz von Assisi, Heiliger 1182-1226
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Hagiografie
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Gebrechlichkeit
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Krankheit
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Autorität
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Weltliche Macht
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Durchsetzungsvermögen
DOI:
10.3138/9781487536190
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536190
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487536190
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