Creating Clare of Assisi
Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy
Biographical note
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.
Readership
All those interested in medieval religious history (both the history of spirituality as well as institutional developments), especially those concerned with women and their writings and the Franciscan Order broadly.
Table of contents
List of Maps ... ix
List of Abbreviations .. xi
Acknowledgments ... xiii
Introduction: The Friars and Sisters .. 1
Chapter One: Clare and the Poor Sisters of San Damiano ... 19
Chapter Two: The Order of Saint Clare .. 57
Chapter Three: Beyond Clare: A Franciscan Centered Order .. 87
Chapter Four: The Clarisses and Observant Reform ... 123
Chapter Five: Writing Female Franciscan Identity .. 157
Conclusion: The True Daughters of Francis and Clare ... 187
Bibliography .. 191
Index ... 215
List of Abbreviations .. xi
Acknowledgments ... xiii
Introduction: The Friars and Sisters .. 1
Chapter One: Clare and the Poor Sisters of San Damiano ... 19
Chapter Two: The Order of Saint Clare .. 57
Chapter Three: Beyond Clare: A Franciscan Centered Order .. 87
Chapter Four: The Clarisses and Observant Reform ... 123
Chapter Five: Writing Female Franciscan Identity .. 157
Conclusion: The True Daughters of Francis and Clare ... 187
Bibliography .. 191
Index ... 215
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