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Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church - Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance (Paperback)
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Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church - Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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. Mooney demonstrates that Clare
(1194-1253) established a single community that was soon cajoled,
perhaps even coerced, into joining an order previously founded by
the papacy. Artfully renaming it after Clare's San Damiano with
Clare as its putative mother, Pope Gregory IX enhanced his order's
cachet by associating it also with Clare's famous friend, Francis
of Assisi. Mooney traces how Clare and her allies in other houses
attempted to follow Francis's directives rather than the pope's,
divested themselves of property against the pope's orders, and
organized in an attempt to change papal rule; and she shows how,
after Francis's death, the women's relationships with the
Franciscans themselves grew similarly fraught. Clare's pursuit of
her vision proved relentless: at the time of her death, she newly
identified her community as the Order of Poor Sisters and allied it
unambiguously with Francis and his friars. Overturning another
myth, Mooney reveals how only in the late nineteenth century did
Clare come to be known as the sole author of a rule she had written
collaboratively with others. Throughout, the story of Clare and her
sisters emerges as a chapter in the long history of women who tried
to define their religious identities within a Church more committed
to unity and conformity than to diversity and difference.
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