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Volker Leppin is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Rhys S. Bezzant is Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne. He translated Volker Leppin’s Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life.
“Leppin’s biography of Francis of Assisi is refreshingly modest, extraordinarily well written, and captures so much of the fascination we still have for this exceptional man from the Middle Ages. That is quite an achievement.”—Ulrich Ruh, Zeitzeichen “In this important work, Volker Leppin combines biographical zeal with a nonpartisan search for historical and theological truth. His unhagiographical Francis-vita is a factual and meaningful account constructed from fragments. Constructive doubt and deconstruction contribute to its originality and persuasive force.”—Krijn Pansters, general editor, Franciscan Studies “Beneath the filtered sources that bear witness to the biography of this saint, Leppin finds fragments of a man rebuilding himself, after a terrible break with his father, around the pursuit of a mystical fusion of self with Christ. This is Francis as known through his first admirers, sensitively reconstructed, thoughtfully narrated, and compelling in every detail still.”—Christopher Ocker, author of The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces
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