Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick World-historical events

World-historical events

even as its Islamic population grew and increasingly required a place of worship

and his companion

emanating from French economist Charles Bettelheim

indigenous peoples' organizations

Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick World-historical eventsIn 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