The acts of the canonisation process

The "life of St. Clare the Virgin"

The writings of Clare

The documents of the thirteenth century

Classification of the sources

The courtly culture of knighthood and models of sanctity

Assisi in the first half of the thirteenth century

The house and family of Clare

Courtly culture and knighthood

Models of sanctity

The youth of Clare - three groups of witnesses

Thomas of Celano elaborates

The search for an alternative

The conversion of Clare

Her meeting with Francis

Conflict with her family

In the monastery of San Paolo delle Abbadesse

The privilege of living without privileges

At Sant' Angelo in Panzo

Flight of her sister Agnes

The definitive choice of San Damiano

Work

The 'privilege of poverty'

The space of sanctity : enclosed and open to the world

New forms of religious life

The constitutions of Cardinal Ugolino

A letter from Ugolino to Clare

The originality of the San Damiano experience

An open community

Clare and enclosure

A woman of penance

Clare's personal and community prayer

The practice of penance

Francis in contrast to Clare?

Made greater by love

The heart of perfect joy

The theology of Clare

Christ, Clare's mirror and example

Marian spirituality and spiritual motherhood

Clare as another Francis

Clare, Gregory IX and the 'Privilegium paupertatis'

Confronted with the bull 'Quo elongati'

Clare in Celano's 'Second Life'

A vision of the breast of St Francis

An historical analysis and psychological interpretation

The culture of Clare and symbolic images

Mother of the sisters and defender of the city

Holiness and miracles

The miracles of Clare

The liturgy of the Transitus

Clare's last years

Clare and Agnes : fragments of a correspondence

The spirituality of 'transitus' : her testament and blessing

The birth of a cult

The funeral and solemn translation of her body

The canonisation processes of Innocent IV and Alexander IV

'Miracles after death'

Confirmation of her cult