Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance Contributor(s): Mooney, Catherine M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812248171 ISBN-13: 9780812248173 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Church - History - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Monasticism |
Series: Middle Ages |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 312 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Cultural Region - Italy - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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. |