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Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia Walter W. Seton

Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia By Walter W. Seton

Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia by Walter W. Seton


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One of the central figures of the early Franciscan movement, Blessed Agnes of Bohemia helped ensure the establishment of the Rule of the Order of Saint Clare. First published in 1915, this thorough edition of her Life, together with letters she received from Saint Clare, illuminates her influential career.

Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia Summary

Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia: Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484) by Walter W. Seton

Walter Seton's 1915 book focuses on one of the key, understudied figures of the early Franciscan movement. Abbess of the Convent of Prague, Blessed Agnes was central to the establishment of the Order of Saint Clare. She presented persuasive arguments to convince the Holy See to permit female Franciscans to live according to their Rule and practise voluntary poverty. Seton's edition, drawn from manuscripts in German libraries, includes the oldest extant Latin version of Agnes' Life together with a fifteenth-century German version and German copies of four letters she received from Saint Clare. Praised in 1916 for its 'admirable thoroughness', this edition sheds new light on Blessed Agnes, whose importance was long overshadowed by her more prominent contemporaries, Saint Clare and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, her cousin. This reissue makes this valuable primary material accessible again to scholars working on Franciscan history and medieval women's spirituality.

Table of Contents

Introduction; The fourteenth century Latin version of the legend; The fifteenth century German version of the legend; The fourteenth century German version of Saint Clare's letters to Blessed Agnes and of the Benediction of Saint Clare; Appendices.

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NLS9781108017602
9781108017602
1108017606
Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia: Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484) by Walter W. Seton
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2010-08-26
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