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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)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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- Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A.
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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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HOC EST QUOD CUPIO: APPROACHING THE RELIGIOUS GOALS OF CLARE OF ASSISI,...
Magistra;
December 1, 2006 ;
Falskau, Christian-Frederik;
787 words
......further contribution to the already immense literature on Clare's religiosity or running into generic conclusions,12...orientation and development. Between Forerunner and Model: Clare of Assist With regard to the most investigated case, Clare of Assisi, remarks will be short, since research has...least ...
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CLARE OF ASSISI AND ISABELLE OF LONGCHAMP: FURTHER LIGHT ON THE EARLY...
Magistra;
January 1, 1997 ;
Anonymous;
787 words
......moved from Assisi to Paris? Clare of Assisi died in 1253 at...guided the community during Clare's forty-two years of leadership...were certainly essential to Clare's understanding of Franciscan...Cardinal Hugolino, the future Gregory IX, is debatable. The question...grateful to have the ...
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Honoring John Clare; The "peasant poet" was more than a prodigy.(BOOKS)(ON...
The Washington Times;
December 7, 2003 ;
787 words
......Hurley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES When John Clare (1793-1864) visited London in the spring...just been published to great acclaim, and Clare - an agricultural laborer who had never...famous than his fellow poet John Keats. Clare then returned home to the rural village...
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John Clare's career, "Keats's publisher," and the early nineteenth-century...
Studies in Romanticism;
September 22, 2006 ;
Suarez, Michael F. Zimmerman, Sarah M.;
787 words
......VOLUME OXFORD ENGLISH TEXTS edition of Clare s poetry provides the most richly detailed portrait possible of Clare the solitary writer-at-work, producing...versions, ignoring the emendations that Clare solicited from his editor, John Taylor...
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TOTALLY DECASTATED; EXCLUSIVE ICE STAR CLARE TELLS NEW MAN OF HER...
The People (London, England);
January 28, 2007 ;
787 words
......JULIAN GAVAGHAN DANCING On Ice favourite Clare Buckfield has told how TV star Declan Donnelly broke her heart. Clare - tipped to win the ITV1 Saturday night...half of Geordie presenters Ant and Dec - Clare has admitted to a friend: I still cry myself...
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Hybridity, mimicry and John Clare's Child Harold.
Wordsworth Circle;
June 22, 2003 ;
Harrison, Gary;
787 words
......recent essays, I have argued that John Clare's poetry presents a poetics of displacement...earlier essays was to demonstrate that Clare who is usually thought of as the poet of...who makes no plans and carries no maps, Clare's poetic personae comprise a subject in...
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CAROL BARNES TALKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT HER DAUGHTER'S TRAGIC SKYDIVE;...
The Mirror (London, England);
June 30, 2004 ;
662 words
......first time of her grief at the death of her daughter Clare in a skydiving accident. Clare, 24, fell 14,000ft when her parachute failed to...as dead. She heard the news in a phone call from Clare's boyfriend, skydive instructor Chris MacDougall...
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GAA: CLARE AREN'T FINISHED YET; TIPPERARY v CLARE.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England);
June 12, 1999 ;
Keys, Colm;
627 words
......has been restored between Tipperary and Clare after last week's drawn game. The Tipp...wasn't enthralled by it, said Dunne. I think Clare will respect us for the performance we...is expecting another huge challenge from Clare again today. Much has been written and...
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John Clare for the twenty-first century.
The Southern Review;
September 22, 2004 ;
Merrin, Jeredith;
787 words
...JOHN CLARE'S POETRY, WHICH PRESERVES FOR POSTERITY the...own endangered sense of identity. Yet for Clare this rescue of himself involves the opposite...called the dearest freshness deep down things. Clare, born in 1793, experienced brief poetic fame...
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TOTALLY DECASTATED; EXCLUSIVE ICE STAR CLARE TELLS NEW MAN OF HER...
The People (London, England);
January 28, 2007 ;
787 words
...DANCING On Ice favourite Clare Buckfield has told how TV star Declan Donnelly broke her heart. Clare - tipped to win the ITV1 Saturday night show...one half of Geordie presenters Ant and Dec - Clare has admitted to a friend: I still cry myself...
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John Clare: A Literary Life.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Albion;
September 22, 2003 ;
Ikegami, Robin;
787 words
...Roger Sales. John Clare: A Literary Life. (Literary Lives.) New...ISBN 0-333-65270-3. Roger Sales' John Clare: A Literary Life is the latest in Palgrave...study offers an intriguing view of John Clare; it is not concerned with critically reading...
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Ger's got it just right as Clare get ready to tear Offaly apart.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England);
August 8, 1998 ;
English, Nicky;
787 words
......tomorrow's Guinness All-Ireland semi-final between Clare and Offaly has been raised through the roof...been waiting quietly in the long grass for Clare. The match had no focal point, nothing to hang from. Clare don't like playing that way. To use racing...
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St. Clare of Assisi.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;
August 11, 2006 ;
487 words
...TODAY'S feast marks the 753rd anniversary of St. Clare's death. Born in 1193 in Assisi, Clare was the oldest child of Ortulana and Favarone...and strife. When the men of Assisi took up arms, Clare's mother Ortulana decided to move to Perugia to...
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Introduction: new directions in John Clare studies.
Wordsworth Circle;
June 22, 2003 ;
McKusick, James C.;
787 words
...The John Clare Conference, organized by the John Clare Society of North America, March 21-22, 2003, was held at the...Baltimore, Maryland. The program explored new directions in Clare scholarship and celebrated the completion of the Oxford English...
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I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN AND IT'S WONDERFUL; CLARE SHORT ON HER...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
May 28, 2006 ;
787 words
...Byline: DANAE BROOK CLARE SHORT may not realise it, but she is dressed...subtly softened. In her younger days, Clare looked the very image of a strident, serious...much closer to home: at the age of 60, Clare Short has fallen in love. The object of...
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