Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

Mysticism in the Thirteenth Century (1x6)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

Here Professor Teofilo Ruiz examines the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi and Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divina Commedia. The lecture seeks to place these mystics in their respective historical contexts, and also examines in some detail Francis's reception of the stigmata.