Colette of Corbie : Learning and Holiness.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One - Saint Colette According to The First Biographies and The First Witnesses -- Chapter 1 - Childhood and Adolescence -- The Authors and Their Works -- Review of Texts on Childhood -- The Parents and Colette as a Child -- The Narrative Technique -- Chapter 2 - Vocation and Seclusion -- Seeking Religious Life -- Awareness of Mission -- The Saint before the Heavenly Court -- The Consequences of the Vision -- Chapter 3 - The Journey to Nice and The Visit to The Pope -- Accounts of the Journey -- The Interview with the Pope -- Official Documents and Hagiographical Interpretation -- Chapter 4 - Colette's Personality and Her Piety -- Colette's Personality -- Prayer -- Devotions -- Chapter 5 - Marvels, Extraordinary Events, and Spirituality -- The Marvelous -- The Extraordinary -- Spirituality -- Chapter 6 - Colette's Virtues -- Religious Virtues and Vows -- Antithetical Structure -- Materiality of Signs and Spiritualization of the Physical -- The Function of Suffering -- Chapter 7 - Eternity in Time -- Reality Emerges -- Colette Confronts Eternity: The Story Restored -- Chapter 8 - The First Enquiries for Canonization -- Testimony of the "Old People of Corbie" -- Katherine Rufiné's Letter -- The "Memoir of Hesdin" -- Part Two - Colette's Writings and Contemporary Works -- Chapter 1 - The Letters -- Presentation -- The Purpose of the Letters -- Chapter 2 - The Themes of The Letters -- Relationships with People outside the Order -- Relations with Religious Brothers and Sisters in Her Congregation -- The Inner life and the Representation of Spiritual Realities -- Chapter 3 - The Heritage -- The Origins of the Rule of Saint Clare -- Some Aspects of the Rule -- Chapter 4 - The Constitutions of Saint Colette -- Structure -- Analysis.

The Internal Operation of the Community -- Chapter 5 - Colette's Other Writings -- The Sentiments: Key Ideas -- The Regulations -- The Counsels, Little Regulations, and Intentions -- The Testament or Colettine Fruitfulness -- Part Three - Colette and Her Times: What Became of The Reform? -- Chapter 1 - Witnesses of Colette -- Relationship with the World -- Relations with the Church -- Relations with the Franciscan Order -- Chapter 2 - The Reform Movement -- Legislative Texts of the Observant Friars -- The Writings of Brother Henry de Baume -- The Text and the References -- Interpersonal Relations and Those with the Sisters -- The Moral and Spiritual Picture of the Friar Minor -- Works Intended for Lay People -- Chapter 3 - The Italian Clarisses of The Fifteenth Century -- General Features of the Reform -- The Main Centers -- The Nuns -- Two Writers of a "Spiritual Treatise" and a Biography -- Chapter 4 - Imitating The Model of Holiness -- Extension of the Colettine Reform -- The Struggle with the Observants -- The Colettine Clarisses -- Reformed, Non-Colettine Clarisses (Except in Italy) -- Chapter 5 - Monastery Life or Living The Heritage -- Monasteries and Society -- The Regular Life -- Chapter 6 - Hagiography and History: The Canonization Process -- Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- The Seventeenth Century -- The Canonization Process -- Chapter 7 - The Colettines in Modern Times and Today -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Synoptic Table: Colette and Her Times -- Table of Foundations by Saint Colette -- Table of Foundations Made before 1520 -- Map of Foundations -- Map of Journeys of Colette (1406-1420) -- Map of Journeys of Colette (1421-1447) -- Map of Distribution of Colettines in Fifteenth Century -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.

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