Clare of Assisi and the thirteenth-century Church: religious women, rules, and resistance

"In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi's founding of the Order of San Damiano, or Poor Clares. Mooney offers instead a stark counternarrative: Clare, her sisters of San Dam...

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Main Author: Mooney, Catherine M. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Series/Journal:The middle age series
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Klara, von Assisi, Heilige 1194-1253 / Foundress of order / Poverty movement / Pope
B Klara, von Assisi, Heilige 1194-1253 / Religious orders for women / Pope / Foundress of order / Women's religious order / Convent / Poverty movement
Further subjects:B Clare 1194-1253
B Monastic And Religious Life Of Women
B Poor Clares History
B Monasticism and religious orders for women
B Clare of Assisi, Saint (1194-1253)
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