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Monastic and religious life of women --- Women saints --- History --- Dominican Sisters --- Italy --- Lay ministry --- Women --- Religious life --- Church history --- 476-1400 --- Monastic and religious life of women - Italy - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Women saints - Italy. --- Saintes --- Dominicaines

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Papers presented at the meeting held in Florence, Italy, Sept. 9-10, 2009

Monastic and religious life of women --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- History --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Monastic and religious life of women - Italy - History - 16th century - Congresses --- Monastic and religious life of women - Spain - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Religieuses --- Espagne --- Italie

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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 Clare’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.

Monastic and religious life of women --- History --- Clare, --- Poor Clares --- Monastic life --- Assisi, Chiara d', --- Chiara, --- Claire, --- Clara, --- Di Offreducio di Favarone, Clara, --- Klara, --- Offreduccio di Favarone, Clara, --- Sciffi, Chiara, --- Franciscans. --- Second Order of St. Francis --- Clarisses --- Clarisse --- Minoresses --- Sisters of St. Clare --- Order of St. Clare --- Poor Ladies --- Klarissza --- Klarissen --- Poor Clare Nuns --- Ordre de Saint Claire --- Orden de Santa Clara --- Hermanas Clarisas --- HH. Clarisas --- Clarissine --- O.S.C. --- OSC --- P.C. (Poor Clares) --- PC --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Spiritual life --- Christianity --- Capuchin Poor Clares --- Klara --- 235.3 CLARA ASSISIENSIS --- 271.973 --- 271.973 Franciskanessen. Arme Klaren. Clarissen. Coletienen. Penitenten-recollectienen --- Franciskanessen. Arme Klaren. Clarissen. Coletienen. Penitenten-recollectienen --- Hagiografie--CLARA ASSISIENSIS --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- Histoire --- Clare of Assisi --- Monastic and religious life of women - Italy - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Clara v. Assisiensis --- Clare, - of Assisi, Saint, - 1194-1253