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    The document provides context about Assisi, Italy in the late 12th/early 13th century when Francis lived. It describes Assisi as similar to a "new Babylon" with issues like disease, social stratification where few helped others, and unstable power structures. The region was also experiencing intellectual and religious changes as scholasticism grew and the Church debated clerical celibacy. Young Francis was influenced by narratives of early Christian martyrs and saints who gave up wealth and comfort to serve the poor, which would guide his own radical path of poverty and devotion.

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    Assisi in Context: The "New Babylon."

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    Assisi in Context

    The “new Babylon.”

    Disease
    Lepers

    Business
    Peter Bernardone
    Assisi in Context
    Social Structure
    “…only very rarely would
    someone make a case for
    the welfare of others” (4).

    Vendettas
    Assisi in Context

    Sexual Norms
    “Weddings were blessed,
    but adultery was expected
    “(7).
    Assisi in Context

    Priests and Celibacy

    Second Lateran Council


     Compulsory Celibacy

    Popular Reaction
     Inversion images
    Assisi in Context
    Christendom
    Priests
    Popes and Anti-popes
     Schism (1159)

    Crusades
    “domino effect”
    Francis in Assisi

    John the Baptist


     “…emblem of one’s spiritual
    roots.”

    Francis, “Frenchy”
    Crusades
    Francis’s Time: Intellectual Growth
    Scholastics
    Anselm of
    Canterbury
    Peter Abelard

    Mystics
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Hugh of St. Victor
    Francis’s Education

    Schools
    Latin
    Bible
     Psalms
    Singing
    Guiding Narratives: St. George (d. 307)

    Medieval St. George


     Dragon Slayer
    Early Christian St. George
     Pacifist/Servant to the poor
    Guiding Narratives: Martin of Tours (336-97)

    Roman Soldier

    Vision
     “Up to now, I have served you as a
    soldier. Give the money to others
    who will fight – I am now a
    soldier of Christ, and it is no
    longer lawful for me to do so.”
    (21)
    Guiding Narratives: Christian Martyrs

    “Martyrdom was proclaimed as the most glorious death a


    Christian could endure…” (21).
    Significance: Soldier & Martyr
    Young Francis

    Peter
    “Business was his religion” (24)
    Troubadours
    Violence
    Young Francis

    Troublesome but Charming


    Pica
    “He will still be a godly child, through grace” (25).
    A Good Man is Hard to Find
    Flannery O’Connor

     “What people don't realize is how


    much religion costs. They think
    faith is a big electric blanket, when
    of course it is the cross. It is much
    harder to believe than not to
    believe.”

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