Order and Disorder

pp.：  3 – 3

Copyright

pp.：  4 – 4

Dedication

pp.：  5 – 6

Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 18

1. Clare of Assisi, Cardinal Ugolino and the Emergence of a Damianite Order

pp.：  19 – 44

The Emergence of Clare’s San Damiano Community

pp.：  19 – 24

The Wider Context

pp.：  25 – 28

Attempts at Regularization: The Initiatives of the Papal Legate Ugolino of Ostia

pp.：  29 – 44

2. Damianites, Minoresses, Poor Clares

pp.：  45 – 82

The Franciscans and the Damianites after the Death of Francis

pp.：  46 – 55

The Rule of Innocent IV

pp.：  56 – 58

The Rule of Clare of Assisi

pp.：  59 – 61

Franciscan Order Policies after the Death of Clare

pp.：  62 – 67

Isabelle of France and the Minoresses

pp.：  68 – 69

Urban IV and the Creation of the Ordo Sanctae Clarae

pp.：  70 – 74

How Uniform was the Order of Poor Clares?

pp.：  75 – 82

3. The Expansion of the Order Until c. 1400

pp.：  83 – 172

Cautionary Remarks

pp.：  83 – 85

Expansion Estimates

pp.：  86 – 87

Italy

pp.：  88 – 95

The Iberian Peninsula

pp.：  96 – 111

France

pp.：  112 – 129

Minoresses in France, England and Italy

pp.：  130 – 135

The German Lands (Including the Alsace Region) and the Low Countries

pp.：  136 – 152

Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Greece and the Middle East

pp.：  153 – 161

Attempts at a Typology of Clarissan Houses

pp.：  162 – 168

Maps

pp.：  169 – 172

4. Implementing Reforms

pp.：  173 – 234

Tordesillas

pp.：  175 – 176

The Colettines

pp.：  177 – 183

Clarissan Reforms Under the Observantes Sub Vicariis in Italy

pp.：  184 – 194

Observant Reforms in Alsace, Germany and Austria

pp.：  195 – 202

The Ave Maria Reform

pp.：  203 – 206

The Annonciade and the ‘Argentan’ or ‘Leonist’ Observance

pp.：  207 – 209

The Regular Observance in Spain

pp.：  210 – 215

Spanish Conceptionists

pp.：  216 – 216

Order Expansion During the Era of Observant Reforms

pp.：  217 – 218

The Clarissan Expansion in the Northern Low Countries: A Case Study

pp.：  219 – 231

Closing Remarks

pp.：  232 – 234

5. Aspects of Community Life

pp.：  235 – 290

Socio-Economic Realities

pp.：  235 – 255

Social and Religious Aspects of Community Life

pp.：  256 – 267

The Position of the Abbess

pp.：  268 – 276

The Novitiate

pp.：  277 – 282

Wayward Nuns

pp.：  283 – 286

Size and Shape of Monasteries

pp.：  287 – 290

6. Forms of Literary and Artistic Expression

pp.：  291 – 354

Preconditions: Literacy and Scribal Activities

pp.：  291 – 304

Poor Clares as Authors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

pp.：  305 – 308

Poor Clares and Minoresses as Target Audience

pp.：  309 – 311

The Impact of the Observant Reforms

pp.：  312 – 319

Epistolography

pp.：  320 – 324

Autobiographical Writings and Texts of Religious Instruction

pp.：  325 – 328

Writings on the Rule

pp.：  329 – 332

Observant Chronicles and Saints’ Lives

pp.：  333 – 342

Prayer Texts and Devotional Poetry

pp.：  343 – 344

Works of Passion Meditation

pp.：  345 – 346

Teaching and Preaching

pp.：  347 – 349

Performances, Music and the Visual Arts

pp.：  350 – 354

Epilogue

pp.：  355 – 378

The Sixteenth Century: A Century of Crisis?

pp.：  355 – 366

Ongoing Expansion

pp.：  367 – 371

Some Tentative Conclusions

pp.：  372 – 378

Bibliography

pp.：  379 – 432

Index of Places and Convents

pp.：  433 – 438

Index of Names and Subjects

pp.：  439 – 449