Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick mundane carework

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and his companion

Brasher-Cunningham has spoken to churches

Their stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical

emanating from French economist Charles Bettelheim

Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church Gita Dharampal-Frick mundane careworkIn 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