Gospel Chivalry: Franciscan Romanticism"In this book, Br Mark, himself a Capuchin friar, shows how St. Francis came to reinvent chivalry as a spiritual code, a particular legacy to his Order of Friars Minor."--BOOK JACKET. |
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