Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Some Notes on Usage ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction. Religious Women in the Thirteenth- Century Church 1
6. Chapter 1. Clare’s Childhood and Conversion to Religious life, 1193 to 1211 15
7. Chapter 2. The early Dan Damiano: A house of Penitents, 1211 to ca. 1216 30
8. Chapter 3. The house of Penitents Becomes a Monastery, ca. 1211 to 1228 54
9. Chapter 4. Turning Point: Negotiating San Damiano’s singularity, ca. 1226 to 1230 67
10. Chapter 5. Clare’s letters to Agnes of Prague, ca. 1234 to 1238 89
11. Chapter 6. Contested Rules, late 1230s to ca. 1246 117
12. Chapter 7. Innocent IV’s Forma Vitae and its Aftermath, 1247 to 1250 135
13. Chapter 8. The 1253 Forma Vitae, ca. 1250 to 1253 161
14. Chapter 9. Clare’s last Words, ca. 1253 197
15. Appendix A. innocent IV, Cum dilecto filio, 28 October 1248 223
16. Appendix B. Rainaldo of Jenne, Etsi ea, 27 June 1250 225
17. Abbreviations 229
18. Notes 233
19. Bibliography 269
20. Index 285
21. Acknowledgments 293