The Medieval Church · c. 1219–1226
The Letters
Francis of Assisi · 1181/82–1226
What it is
Letters to the whole order, to rulers, and to clergy, mostly concerned with reverence for the eucharist and with gathering up written words of God from the ground.
Why it lasted
Francis's own voice on the sacrament and on the written word, and evidence of how far his concerns differed from the legend built around him.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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