Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2125
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kay , Sarah.
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  • Title: Audacious Nuns: Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare [The author analyzes the legal and political struggles between the Poor Clares and the male Franciscan order, with the women finally successful in ensuring that the Franciscans would provide them with spiritual care].
  • Source: Church History 69, 1 (March 2000): Pages 41 - 62.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Ecclesiastical Politics Franciscan Order Friars Law Monasticism Pastoral Care- Nuns Poor Clares Order Popes Regula (Pope Urban IV) Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13
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  • Author's Affiliation: Cambridge University
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00096407