by Lori Pieper
Doctoral dissertation, Fordham University, 2002.
This work examines the sources for the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), including two lives edited here for the first time: the Valenciennes Life (ca.1250) and the Anonymous Franciscan (ca. 1272-1301), a compilation which contains lost testimonies from Elizabeth’s canonization process.
It also discusses how we can find Elizabeth’s voice as woman in a male-dominated society by examining the tensions between the testimonies of her closest women companions, the “Four Handmaids,” and the accounts of the male witnesses and hagiographers. Elizabeth's influence on the women's Franciscan movement is also discussed.
Original Title
St Elizabeth of Hungary and the Franciscan Tradition
by Lori Pieper
Doctoral dissertation, Fordham University, 2002.
This work examines the sources for the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), including two lives edited here for the first time: the Valenciennes Life (ca.1250) and the Anonymous Franciscan (ca. 1272-1301), a compilation which contains lost testimonies from Elizabeth’s canonization process.
It also discusses how we can find Elizabeth’s voice as woman in a male-dominated society by examining the tensions between the testimonies of her closest women companions, the “Four Handmaids,” and the accounts of the male witnesses and hagiographers. Elizabeth's influence on the women's Franciscan movement is also discussed.
by Lori Pieper
Doctoral dissertation, Fordham University, 2002.
This work examines the sources for the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), including two lives edited here for the first time: the Valenciennes Life (ca.1250) and the Anonymous Franciscan (ca. 1272-1301), a compilation which contains lost testimonies from Elizabeth’s canonization process.
It also discusses how we can find Elizabeth’s voice as woman in a male-dominated society by examining the tensions between the testimonies of her closest women companions, the “Four Handmaids,” and the accounts of the male witnesses and hagiographers. Elizabeth's influence on the women's Franciscan movement is also discussed.