The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered

The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-176

  Wolf, Kenneth Baxter ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Almsgiving; Assisi; Beggar; Christianity; Francis; Hagiography; Mendicant; Poverty; Saint; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885551688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195158083.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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