Introduction: Religious women in the thirteenth-century Church
Clare's childhood and conversion to religious life, 1193-1211
The early San Damiano: a house of penitents, 1211 to ca. 1216
The house of penitents becomes a monastery, ca. 1211 to 1228
Turning point: negotiating San Damiano's singularity, ca. 1226 to 1230
Clare's letters to Agnes of Prague, ca. 1234 to 1238
Contested rules, late 1230s to ca. 1246
Innocent IV's Forma vitae and its aftermath, 1247 to 1250
The 1253 Forma vitae, ca. 1250 to 1253
Clare's last words, ca. 1253.