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If such exists, it is far from the responses shown by recent narrators, and recommended to readers. Christ was led “like a lamb to the slaughter,” and like a sheep before its shearers, he was mute. He had emptied himself of both divine and human pride. In contrast, some protagonists in autobiographies respond to humiliation not by “making themselves nothing,” but by reasserting a new kind of control under paradoxical circumstances. Choreographer Agnes DeMille suffered a severe stroke, and underwent many medical tests.
On the analytical use of hagiography see Jacques Dubois and Jean-Loup Lemaitre, Sources et méthodes de l’hagiographie médiévale (Paris: CERF, 1993). Definitive editions and translations of all the early hagiographic texts related to Francis of Assisi are found in the three volumes of FAED. 3. Francis has been the subject of many scholarly biographies. Most recently and reliably see André Vauchez, Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint, trans. Michael Cusato (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012).
Before Thomas of Celano wrote his Treatise on the Miracles of Francis discussed here, he was commissioned to write two vitae of Francis. 25 The work was completed and approved by the pope by February, 1229. 26 In particular, the death story reads very differently from the accounts based on the recorded memories of Francis’s close companions. There is no mention of Jacopa in the death scene. Instead, Francis is surrounded by friars and requests that they sing his Canticle and certain psalms. He takes a clerical stance by forgiving his brothers for their faults and absolving them.