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Uniform Title Vita della beata Chiara da Rimino. English.
Title A female apostle in medieval Italy : the life of Clare of Rimini / [edited and translated by] Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps, facsimiles
Series The Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series.
Contents Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Space, Time, Social Setting -- Chapter 2. From Human Desire to Divine Love -- Chapter 3. Doing Penance -- Chapter 4. Far from Home -- Chapter 5. A Room of One's Own -- Chapter 6. The Shadow of Heresy -- Chapter 7. The Word of God -- Chapter 8. Visions of Community -- Chapter 9. From Intuition to Institution -- Chapter 10. An Apostle on the Road -- Chapter 11. The Power of Images -- Chapter 12. Through a Glass Darkly -- Epilogue. Death, Life, Afterlife
Appendix. The Manuscript of The Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini -- Notes -- Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324-29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint's life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, set against the background of her roiling city, her star-crossed family, and the tumultuous political and religious landscape of her age. Twice married, twice widowed, and twice exiled, Clare established herself as a penitent living in a roofless cell in the ruins of the Roman walls of Rimini. She sought a life of solitary self-denial, but was denounced as a demonic danger by local churchmen. Yet she also gained important and influential supporters, allowing her to establish a fledgling community of like-minded sisters. She traveled to Assisi, Urbino, and Venice, spoke out as a teacher and preacher, but also suffered a revolt by her spiritual daughters. A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy presents the text of the Life in English translation for the first time, bringing modern readers into Clare's world in all its excitement and complexity. Each chapter opens a different window into medieval society, exploring topics from political power to marriage and sexuality, gender roles to religious change, pilgrimage to urban structures, sanctity to heresy. Through the expert guidance of scholars and translators Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo, Clare's life and context become a springboard for readers to discover what life was like in a medieval Italian city
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed April 6, 2023)
Subject Clare, of Rimini, active 13th century-14th century.
SUBJECT Clare, of Rimini, active 13th century-14th century fast
Vita della beata Chiara da Rimino. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002115215
Subject Christian heresies -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian saints -- Biography -- History and criticism
Catholic women -- Italy -- Rimini -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Catholic women
Christian heresies -- Middle Ages
Christian saints -- Biography
Civilization
SUBJECT Rimini (Italy) -- Civilization -- Early works to 1800
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888
Subject Italy
Italy -- Rimini
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
History
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Biographies.
Critiques littéraires.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Dalarun, Jacques, editor. translator.
Field, Sean L. (Sean Linscott), 1970- editor. translator.
Cappozzo, Valerio, editor. translator.
ISBN 9781512823059
1512823058