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Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform

2013
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The Portuguese Poor Clares and their benefactors

Founded in the 13th and 14th centuries, Portuguese communities of Poor Clares enjoyed support from the monarchs and noble elites who found in them a space for the expression of their devotion and a way of exercising a power and the aura of sanctity. These abbesses, many of them scions of these families, affirmed their power expressing a leadership and ...
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Poor Maternity: Clare of Assisi's letters to Agnes of Prague

Women's History Review, 2015
During the first half of the thirteenth century, Clare of Assisi and Agnes of Prague sustained a long epistolary relationship. Clare's part of the correspondence is extant, and reveals much about the intersection of the language of gendered piety and political ambition in this period.
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The Poet and the Poor Law. Reflections Upon John Clare's ``The Parish''

Liverpool Law Review, 2001
This article argues that the work of the hedgerow poet John Clare is invaluable for legal social history in illuminating the reality of the operation of the poor law as it affected the lives of the poor. Clare's poem,The Parish, written between 1823–6 was not published during the author's lifetime.
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Forced Vocation or Not?: The Case of the Abducted Poor Clare of Wamel (1464)

Franciscan Studies, 2012
In 1884 the Provincial Archives of Dutch Guelders province in Arnhem (known today as the "Guelders Archief") obtained a collection of archival materials from the former ducal Buren castle in the so-called "Betuwe" region, between two branches of the Rhine river. At present, this batch of archival materials forms part of the large archival collection of
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Chapter One. Clare And The Poor Sisters Of San Damiano

2008
This chapter discusses the development of competing models of female Franciscan life. Clare always insisted that Francis of Assisi was the founder of the sisters' way of life, a strategy that gave powerful religious authority to her understanding of female Franciscan life. Clare was accompanied by her neighbor, Pacifi ca de Guelfuccio, who later joined
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The Poor Clares during the Era of Observant Reforms: Attempts at a Typology

Franciscan Studies, 2012
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Clare of Assisi and the Poor Sisters in the Thirteenth Century

2004
The volume aims to contextualise the relationship between Clare of Assisi and the Roman Church. In the creation of the new Order of S. Damiano, cardinal Hugo (Hugolino) of Ostia played a fundamental role, hitherto little considered by historiography: the examination of his work as a cardinal legate (1217-1221) and then as Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241 ...
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Clare of Assisi's Mysticism of the Poor Crucified

Studies in Spirituality, 1994
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The Convent of Poor Clares in Breslau and its Medieval Furnishings

2022
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