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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 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

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Author

Lezlie S. Knox

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9789047443063

Category

history

Subjects

Philosophy, Christian, Medieval

Updated

2026-03-25