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The Mirror of Perfection has long been accepted as one of the most vivid collections of stories about St. Francis of Assisi. It has been widely recognized by students of Franciscan sources that most of the stories it contains also survive in the form in which they were originally written by brother Leo and his colleagues, St. Francis's closest companions. First published in 1970, this corrected reprint contains the stories in their original Latin form, together with a critical English text and introduction. Leo's other work, the Life of St. Francis's third disciple, Brother Giles of Assisi,...

An important new study of the way in which St Francis's image was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. St Francis was a man whose personality was deliberately stamped on his Order and Rosalind Brooke explores how the stories told by Francis's companions were at once brilliantly vivid portrayals of the man as well as guides to how the Franciscan way of life ought to be led. She also examines how after St Francis's death a great monument was erected to him in the Basilica at Assisi and how this came to reflect in stone and stained glass and fresco the manner in which some...

The early historians of the Franciscan order traced the causes of the troubles of the order in their time to Elias, a contemporary and friend of St Francis and an early Minister General. Elias was blamed for opening the way to all relaxations of discipline and disregard of the founder's teaching, and all conflicts and persecutions. Mrs Brooke shows that responsibility cannot be placed on one man, but on many of the early friars. She gives a more historical account of Elias, showing that he was never as dominant a figure as has been supposed. The early conflicts of the order are shown to have...