A Companion to Clare of Assisi

Life, Writings, and Spirituality
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18216-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into the middle of the thirteenth century and transposed them into a woman’s key. Bringing together the best of international research, the text examines Clare’s importance within the early Franciscan milieu and her contribution to the thirteenth-century women's movement. It studies the radicalism of Clare's Franciscan choice, her life within the Monastery of San Damiano, her politicking with Agnes of Prague for the "privilege of poverty," and her uniqueness among other women in Gregory IX's Damianite ordo. Following this historical study are critical translations and literary analyses of Clare's four letters to Agnes of Prague as well as a new translation and commentary on Clare’s Forma Vitae.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Joan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I
CLARE: FRANCISCAN WOMEN
Chapter One The Franciscan Choice
Chapter Two The Monastery of S Damiano
Chapter Three The Politics of “Infant’s Milk”: Clare of Assisi
and the Privilege of Poverty
Chapter Four The Ordo that Gregory IX Founded: Clare
among other Ugolinian Sisters
PART II
CLARE: HER WRITINGS
Chapter Five Reading Clare’s Letters in Context
Chapter Six The Agnes Legend in Clare’s Letters
Appendix: The Legend of S Agnes of Rome
Chapter Seven Clare’s Forma Vitae: Unique Contributions
PART III
CLARE: HER WRITINGS IN TRANSLATION
Clare’s First Letter to Agnes
Clare’s Second Letter to Agnes
Clare’s Third Letter to Agnes
Clare’s Fourth Letter to Agnes
Clare’s Forma Vitae 275Bibliography
Index
Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Mueller, Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, Duquesne Univeristy, is Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Spirituality at Creighton University. Her extensive publications on Clare of Assisi and the Franciscan movement include The Privilege of Poverty (Penn State University Press, 2006).