St. Francis of Assisi: The Legend and the Life

Michael Robson examines the stages in the building up of the legend of Saint Francis and asks why the earliest biographers chose to tell the life of Saint Francis in the way they did. Instead of simply narrating the life of the saint, Robson looks at the effect he had on his parents, the local bishop, Cardinal Hugolino, Pope Innocent III and of course on Saint Clare. What emerges is a new understanding of the world's most popular saint.