Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 5:00 PM
Marsh Room, Billings Library
48 University Place
University of Vermont
Historians Jacques Dalarun and Sean Field will talk about their forthcoming book, A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. The book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324–29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint’s life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, set against the background of her roiling city, her star-crossed family, and the tumultuous political and religious landscape of her age. A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy presents the text of the Life in English translation for the first time, bringing modern readers into Clare’s world in all its excitement and complexity.
Jacques Dalarun is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the former director of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS). Sean L. Field is Professor of History at the University of Vermont.
Sponsored by the Department of History, the Silver Special Collections Library and the UVM Humanities Center
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Special Collections at uvmsc.uvm.edu or 802-656-2138.