Format:
Online-Ressource (449 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9789004243637
Series Statement:
The Medieval Franciscans
Content:
In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Order and Disorder; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. Clare of Assisi, Cardinal Ugolino and the Emergence of a Damianite Order; The Emergence of Clare's San Damiano Community; The Wider Context; Attempts at Regularization: The Initiatives of the Papal Legate Ugolino of Ostia; 2. Damianites, Minoresses, Poor Clares; The Franciscans and the Damianites after the Death of Francis; The Rule of Innocent IV; The Rule of Clare of Assisi; Franciscan Order Policies after the Death of Clare; Isabelle of France and the Minoresses; Urban IV and the Creation of the Ordo Sanctae Clarae
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How Uniform was the Order of Poor Clares?3. The Expansion of the Order Until c. 1400; Cautionary Remarks; Expansion Estimates; Italy; The Iberian Peninsula; France; Minoresses in France, England and Italy; The German Lands (Including the Alsace Region) and the Low Countries; Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Greece and the Middle East; Attempts at a Typology of Clarissan Houses; Maps; 4. Implementing Reforms; Tordesillas; The Colettines; Clarissan Reforms Under the Observantes Sub Vicariis in Italy; Observant Reforms in Alsace, Germany and Austria; The Ave Maria Reform
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The Annonciade and the 'Argentan' or 'Leonist' ObservanceThe Regular Observance in Spain; Spanish Conceptionists; Order Expansion During the Era of Observant Reforms; The Clarissan Expansion in the Northern Low Countries: A Case Study; Closing Remarks; 5. Aspects of Community Life; Socio-Economic Realities; Social and Religious Aspects of Community Life; The Position of the Abbess; The Novitiate; Wayward Nuns; Size and Shape of Monasteries; 6. Forms of Literary and Artistic Expression; Preconditions: Literacy and Scribal Activities
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Poor Clares as Authors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesPoor Clares and Minoresses as Target Audience; The Impact of the Observant Reforms; Epistolography; Autobiographical Writings and Texts of Religious Instruction; Writings on the Rule; Observant Chronicles and Saints' Lives; Prayer Texts and Devotional Poetry; Works of Passion Meditation; Teaching and Preaching; Performances, Music and the Visual Arts; Epilogue; The Sixteenth Century: A Century of Crisis?; Ongoing Expansion; Some Tentative Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Places and Convents; Index of Names and Subjects;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004244757
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004243637
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Author information:
Roest, Bert 1965-
