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Hagiography as Institutional Biography: Medieval and Modern Uses of the Thirteenth-Century Vitae of Clare of Assisi
- Author(s):
- Kirsty Day (see profile)
- Editor(s):
- Robert Smith, Gemma Watson
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Hagiography, Middle Ages, Religion, Nuns, Women, History
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Franciscan Order, Religious communities, Medieval history, Medieval religion, Women's history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/0kpw-jk55
- Abstract:
- This chapter examines how historians of the Franciscan order have created androcentric and teleological histories of the order based on hagiographic narratives of origin, and shows how we might better understand these hagiographic texts as products of the contexts in which they were produced.
- Notes:
- Appears in Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700: A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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