Creating Clare of Assisi [electronic resource]
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Earlier scholarship has characterized female Franciscanism as an institution established by Clare of Assisi in collaboration with Saint Francis. This understanding is anachronistic, however, and overlooks the more complicated disputes over what it meant for enclosed women to have a mendicant vocation. This book clarifies Clare’s contributions to these debates by distinguishing the historical figure from the uses made of her legacy by the papacy, the Friars Minor, and, most importantly, the enclosed sisters between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. By examining the diversity of female communities and their complicated institutional formation in medieval Italy, it examines how and when Clare was appropriated as a model of spiritual authority by the women to shape their identity as Franciscans.
Title |
Creating Clare of Assisi [electronic resource] : female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy / by Lezlie S. Knox. |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher |
Leiden Boston : Brill |
Creation Date |
2008 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index. English |
Content |
The friars and sisters -- Clare and the Poor Sisters of San Damiano -- The Order of Saint Clare -- Beyond Clare : a Franciscan centered order -- The Clarisses and observant reform -- Writing female Franciscan identity -- Conclusion: The true daughters of Francis and Clare. |
Series |
The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 v. 5 |
Extent |
1 online resource (243 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010718620805171 |
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- Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253.
- Assisi, Chiara d', Saint, 1194-1253
- Chiara, d'Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
- Claire, d'Assise, Saint, 1194-1253
- Clara, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
- nnaa Clara, of Assisi, Saint, d. 1253
- Clara, S., 1194-1253
- Clare, of Assisi, St., 1194-1253
- Clare, S., 1194-1253
- Clare, St., 1194-1253
- Di Offreducio di Favarone, Clara, 1194-1253
- Klara, von Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
- Klara, z Asyżu, Saint, 1194-1253
- Offreduccio di Favarone, Clara, 1194-1253
- Sciffi, Chiara, 1194-1253
- Poor Clares Italy History Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Franciscans. Second Order
- Second Order of St. Francis
- Clarisses
- Clarisse
- Minoresses
- Sisters of St. Clare
- Order of St. Clare
- Poor Ladies
- Klarissza
- Klarissen
- Poor Clare Nuns
- Ordre de Saint Claire
- Orden de Santa Clara
- Hermanas Clarisas
- HH. Clarisas
- Clarissine
- O.S.C.
- OSC
- P.C. (Poor Clares)
- PC
- Monastic and religious life of women Italy History Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monastic life
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