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 …
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
"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…
Ecrits
by Becker, Marie-France, Godet, Jean-François, Matura, Thaddée, Clare,, of Assisi, Saint
Ecrits
by Clare,, of Assisi, Saint, Becker, Marie-France, Godet, Jean-François, Matura, Thaddée
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…
