1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455266503321

Autore

Knox Lezlie S

Titolo

Creating Clare of Assisi [[electronic resource] ] : female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy / / by Lezlie S. Knox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-282-39838-5

9786612398384

90-474-4306-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

The medieval Franciscans, , 1572-6991 ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

271/.97302

Soggetti

Monastic and religious life of women - Italy - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The friars and sisters -- Clare and the Poor Sisters of San Damiano -- The Order of Saint Clare -- Beyond Clare : a Franciscan centered order -- The Clarisses and observant reform -- Writing female Franciscan identity -- Conclusion: The true daughters of Francis and Clare.

Sommario/riassunto

Earlier scholarship has characterized female Franciscanism as an institution established by Clare of Assisi in collaboration with Saint Francis. This understanding is anachronistic, however, and overlooks the more complicated disputes over what it meant for enclosed women to have a mendicant vocation. This book clarifies Clare’s contributions to these debates by distinguishing the historical figure from the uses made of her legacy by the papacy, the Friars Minor, and, most importantly, the enclosed sisters between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. By examining the diversity of female communities and their complicated institutional formation in medieval Italy, it examines how and when Clare was appropriated as a model of spiritual authority by the women to shape their identity as Franciscans.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451733503321

Autore

Berkowitz Michael

Titolo

The crime of my very existence [[electronic resource] ] : Nazism and the myth of Jewish criminality / / Michael Berkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-77217-1

9786612772177

0-520-94068-7

1-4356-0199-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

An S. Mark Taper Foundation book in Jewish studies

Disciplina

305.892404309043

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

National socialism

Propaganda, German - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes

Jews - Germany - Public opinion

Public opinion - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Above Suspicion? Facts, Myths, and Lies about Jews and Crime -- 2. The Construction of "Jewish Criminality" in Nazi Germany -- 3. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Ghettos -- 4. Inverting the Innocent and the Criminal in Concentration Camps -- 5. Re-presenting Zionism as the Apex of Global Conspiracy -- 6. Lingering Stereotypes and Jewish Displaced Persons -- 7. Jewish DPs Confronting the Law: Prescriptions, Self-Perceptions, and Pride of Self-Control -- Epilogue: The Estonia Enigma -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews



with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe.