Catherine M. Mooney

If you're not a medievalist with an interest for the history of female religious and a penchant for meticulous source criticism, this is not the book for you. However, I found Catherine Mooney's painstaking dissection of the traditional narrative surrounding Clare of Assisi's involvement with the Order of San Damiano—or Poor Clares—and the primary sources on which that narrative is built to be delicious. Myth-making in the service of institutionalised male authority overshadowing complex female attempts at autonomy and self-determination—who'd have guessed?… (meer)