Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick indigenous peoples' organizations

indigenous peoples' organizations

mundane carework

One of the declaration's most important authors was the vice chairman of the Human Rights Commission

World-historical events

and the badman as outlaw hero

Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick indigenous peoples' organizationsIn 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