Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance Contributor(s): Mooney, Catherine M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812225074 ISBN-13: 9780812225075 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Church - History - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Monasticism |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 of San Damiano, and their allies struggled against a papal program bent on regimenting, enriching, and enclosing religious women in the thirteenth century, a program that proved largely successful. |