Introduction: Religious women in the thirteenth-century Church -- Clare's childhood and conversion to religious life, 1193-1211 -- The early San Damiano: a house of penitents, 1211 to ca. 1216 -- The house of penitents becomes a monastery, ca. 1211 to 1228 -- Turning point: nego…
"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…
"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…
