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The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women.(Book review)

The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women, by Joan Mueller. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x, 182 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper).

Joan Mueller's The Privilege of Poverty is an engaging and insightful examination of how Clare of Assisi and some of her followers strove to adhere unflinchingly to the discipline of strict poverty during the early days of the Franciscan movement. Though a much-heralded feature of Clare's spirituality and monastic mission, the subject of the early application of her rigorous model of monastic poverty has not received careful attention until ...

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