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Previous scholarship has characterized female Franciscanism as an institution established by Clare of Assisi in collaboration with Saint Francis. According to Knox, this understanding is anachronistic. This book examines how and when Clare was appropriated as a model of spiritua…
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 hav…