groups and people concerned with the sanctity of creation, ecumenism, with inter-faith matters, and animal rights.Historian and theologian Michael Robson goes beyond the myth to reveal the man in the context of his times and circumstances. Robson's Francis is not the idealized saint whose strings were manipulated by an all-controlling God. He emerges as a man whose life's journeys was profoundly affected by his relationships with men and women in his own family, in the Church, and in his own city, and by the wider political context of thirteenth-century Europe.Robson transcends the boundaries of conventional biography by approaching Francis through the thoughts and writings of those who knew him: his parents, the local bishop, Pope Innocent III, Cardinal Ugolino, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Clare. What emerges is a new and more profound understanding of St. Francis of Assisi that will fascinate historians and delight followers of the saint himself.

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