TY - JOUR
T1 - Poor maternity
T2 - Clare of Assisi's letters to Agnes of Prague
AU - Monagle, Clare
PY - 2015/7/4
Y1 - 2015/7/4
N2 - During the first half of the thirteenth century, Clare of Assisi and Agnes of Prague sustained a long epistolary relationship. Clare's part of the correspondence is extant, and reveals much about the intersection of the language of gendered piety and political ambition in this period. This article seeks, in particular, to place Clare's use of maternal imagery within the context of her attempts to build patronage networks in order to support her ambitions to secure the Privilege of Poverty for herself and her sisters, the right to live without landed endowments and claustration.
AB - During the first half of the thirteenth century, Clare of Assisi and Agnes of Prague sustained a long epistolary relationship. Clare's part of the correspondence is extant, and reveals much about the intersection of the language of gendered piety and political ambition in this period. This article seeks, in particular, to place Clare's use of maternal imagery within the context of her attempts to build patronage networks in order to support her ambitions to secure the Privilege of Poverty for herself and her sisters, the right to live without landed endowments and claustration.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929954051&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1092592
U2 - 10.1080/09612025.2015.1015329
DO - 10.1080/09612025.2015.1015329
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929954051
SN - 0961-2025
VL - 24
SP - 490
EP - 501
JO - Women's History Review
JF - Women's History Review
IS - 4
ER -