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George FERZOCO
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> From: Grace Desa <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 22 October 2009 15:30:58 BDT
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> Subject: CRRS Friday workshop 23 October 3:30 pm - Bert Roest
> "Appropriating Clare of Assisi's 'Regula Prima' in the Franciscan
> World, 15-17th century"
>
> The CRRS Friday Workshop series presents Bert Roest speaking on:
>
> "Appropriating Clare of Assisi's 'Regula Prima' in the Franciscan
> world, 15th-17th century"
>
> Date: Friday 23 October
> Time: 3:30 pm
> Location: Northrop Frye 205 (Victoria College, University of Toronto)
>
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> Clare of Assisi’s Rule or Forma Vitae, which received papal
> approval in 1253, was for a very long time hidden from view. With
> the exception of a few monasteries, such as the Santa Chiara
> monastery in Naples, most Clarissan houses observed the so-called
> Urbanist Rule from 1263. Other houses followed the Rule approved
> for the Sorores Minores of Isabella of Longchamp, or even older
> texts issued by Cardinal Ugolino (first issued in 1219) and
> Innocent IV (1247).
> It was with the onset of the Colettine and Observant reforms in the
> fifteenth century, that Clare of Assisi’s Forma Vitae was
> rediscovered. Most friars and nuns involved considered it to be a
> text written by Francis, understood it to be the original rule for
> Franciscan women (hence the Regula Prima), and therefore saw it as
> a key text in the creation of an Observant religious identity.
> However, the men and women involved took on Clare’s Forma Vitae/
> Regula Prima with different agenda’s.
> This paper tries to shed some light on the way in which the text
> was appropriated both by foremen of the Franciscan Observant
> movement during and after the fifteenth century, in order to shape
> the religious lifestyle of Poor Clare monasteries under their care,
> and by Colettine nuns, Observant Poor Clares, and Capuchin nuns
> eager to create a meaningful religious life not completely on the
> terms of their spiritual directors.
>
> Bert Roest, currently a lecturer of medieval history at the Radboud
> University, Nijmegen and a fellow of the CRRS at Toronto, has
> worked on Franciscan education, Mendicant historiography,
> Franciscan literature of religious instruction and the religious
> and intellectual world of the Poor Clares between the 13th and the
> 18th century. He is currently writing a book on the Poor Clares, in
> the context of which he tries to make sense of the manifold models
> of religious life used by the nuns and their spiritual guides, many
> of whom were Franciscan friars.
>
>
> --
> Dr. Stephanie Treloar
> Assistant to the Director
> Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
> 71 Queen's Park Crescent East
> E. J. Pratt Library, Room 301
> Toronto, ON
> M5S 1K7
> CANADA
> tel. 416-585-4484 / fax 416-585-4430
> www.crrs.ca
>
>
>
> --
> Grace Desa
> Graduate Administrator
> Centre for Medieval Studies
> University of Toronto
> 416-978-4884
>
>
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