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Creating Clare of Assisi
Lezlie S. Knox
其他書名
Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy
出版BRILL, 2008
主題History / MedievalReligion / Institutions & Organizations
ISBN97890041665169004166513
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o2g6znR14NEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 Clarea (TM)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.