Creating Clare of Assisi: Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy (The Medieval Franciscans, 5)

Knox, Lezlie

ISBN 10: 9004166513 / ISBN 13: 9789004166516

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Clare of Assisi: Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy (The Medieval Franciscans, 5)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004166513
• ISBN 13: 9789004166516
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lezlie S. Knox, Ph.D. (1999) in Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. She has published extensively on Clare of Assisi and the Franciscan sisters during the Middle Ages.