TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knox,Lezlie S.
TI  - Creating Clare of Assisi: female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2008
SN  - 9789047443063
AV  - BX4700.C6 K56 2008
U1  - 271/.97302 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Klara
KW  - Clare,
KW  - Poor Clares
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index; Preliminary Materials; L.S. Knox --; Introduction The Friars And Sisters; L.S. Knox --; Chapter One. Clare And The Poor Sisters Of San Damiano; L.S. Knox --; Chapter Two. The Order Of Saint Clare; L.S. Knox --; Chapter Three. Beyond Clare: A Franciscan Centered Order; L.S. Knox --; Chapter Four. The Clarisses And Observant Reform; L.S. Knox --; Chapter Five. Writing Female Franciscan Identity; L.S. Knox --; Conclusion The True Daughters Of Francis And Clare; L.S. Knox --; Bibliography; L.S. Knox --; Index; L.S. Knox; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166516.i-227
ER  -