BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220915T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T114353 CREATED:20220325T195932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T195807Z UID:750-1663268400-1663272000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca SUMMARY:Hunting the Little Poor Man of Assisi: Or\, Why after 100 Years of Research I Still Had to Write Yet Another Life of St. Francis of Assisi DESCRIPTION:Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, Praeses\, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\n\n \n  \nSince the 1890s\, Franciscan and non-Franciscan scholars have been searching for new sources for the life of St. Francis and subjecting them to intensive study and analysis. We now know more about the evidence for this beloved saint than ever before\, but there was\, until this biography\, virtually no attempt to use all this information to reconstruct the “Historical Francis.” This lecture will explain the difficulties of interpreting this evidence and why those most involved in its study have avoided using it to create a new biography. It will then explain the speaker’s own approach and how it produced a very different picture of St. Francis from that popularly received. \n\n\nIn February 2022 Father Augustine Thompson was appointed Praeses (President / Director) of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto.  He is currently on leave from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, California.  He is the author of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell University Press\, 2012).  He joined the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) in 1977\, and was ordained a priest in 1985. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89906353712 \nCo-sponsored by: the Dominican Institute of Toronto\, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\, the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies\, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Toronto). URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/hunting-the-little-poor-man-of-assisi/ LOCATION:Online with Zoom CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR