TY - JOUR AU - Marini, Alfonso PY - 2023/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Monache di area francescana: qualche riflessione non soltanto lessicale JF - Specula Revista de Humanidades y Espiritualidad JA - Specula VL - IS - 5 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.46583/specula_2023.1.1084 UR - https://revistas.ucv.es/specula/index.php/specula/article/view/1084 SP - AB - <p>The article discusses some current historiographical concepts on <em>pauperes moniales inclusae</em> and on the Order of San Damiano, analyzing hagiographic and liturgical sources and considering the data of recent research on female monasteries. Although the initiative for a new aggregation of female monasteries is due to Cardinal Ugolino of Ostia (later Pope Gregory IX, 1227-1241), it is difficult to deny that, starting as early as the end of the third decade of the thirteenth century, in the works of the Friars Minor there was talk of the second Order initiated by Francis of Assisi, of which Clare was the first plant. The documentation on the monasteries shows, then, that not only Clare and a few other nuns felt connected to the Minors, even if the practical conception of poverty was different among the nuns. Lastly, recent studies have shown that various cloistered communities refused the passage to the <em>Ordo Sanctae Clarae</em> in 1263, maintaining the old Ugolino’s <em>formula vitae</em> and the <em>Ordo Sancti Damiani</em> denomination throughout the thirteenth and early decades of the fourteenth century. It is therefore correct to speak of nuns in the Franciscan area.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -