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

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

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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.

Release date Australia

August 26th, 2010

Author

Walter W Seton

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

6 Halftones, black and white

Pages

200

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9781108017602

Product ID

7024577

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