Bonjour,
Pour un sujet si pointu je crains que vous n'ayez pas grand choix sinon de passer par un grande bibliothèque universitaire ( il est facile de faire des emprunts d'une université à l'autre) sinon, et ca pourrait être passionnant, vous pouvez contacter votre diocèse catholique pour mettre la main sur l'historien clérical le plus près.
Voici quelques pistes de lectures que j'ai pu trouver sur internet et qui pourraient vous intéresser:
Ditchfield, Simon.
Liturgy, sanctity and history in Tridentine Italy : Pietro Maria Campi and the preservation of the particular / Simon Ditchfield.
Published Cambridge ; New York, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description xiv, 397 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Women of God and arms : female spirituality and political conflict, 1380-1600 / Nancy Bradley Warren.
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
Description 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
St. Clare and her order : a story of seven centuries / edited by the author of The Enclosed nun. --
Published London : Mills & Boon, 1912.
Description ix, 333 p. : ill.
Je n'ai trouvé que l'extrait suivant sur le site de l'encyclopedie catholique:http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12251b.htm
V. For a century after the death of St. Clare comparatively few of the convents had adopted the Rule of 1253. Most of them had availed themselves of the permission to hold property in the name of the community. Moreover, in the fourteenth century the order suffered very much during the Great Western Schism, which was responsible for the general decline of discipline (Manuale Historiæ Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, p. 586). At the beginning of the fifteenth century, however, the spirit of utter poverty was revived through the instrumentality of St. Colette (died 1447) who instituted the most vigorous reform the Second Order has ever experienced. Her desire to restore or introduce the practice of absolute poverty was put on a fair way to realization when, in 1406, Benedict XIII appointed her reformer of the whole order and gave her the office of Abbess General over all convents she should establish or reform. In 1412 St. Colette established a monastery at Besançon. Before her death (1447) she had founded 17 new monasteries, to which, in addition to the Rule of St. Clare, she gave constitutions and regulations of her own. These Constitutions of St. Colette were confirmed by Pius II (Seraphicæ Legislationis Textus Originales, 99-175). After the death of St. Colette her reform continued to spread and by the end of the fifteenth century reformed convents were to be found throughout France, Flanders, Brabant, Savoy, Spain, and Portugal. The number of sisters at that time exceeded 35,000 and they were everywhere commended by the austerity of their lives (Pidoux, "Sainte Colette", p.158). From the year 1517 the spiritual direction of the Poor Clares, the Colettines not excepted, was given to the Observants. This was a return to the condition existing before the year 1263, at which time the Friars Minor, under the leadership of St. Bonaventure, at the General Chapter of Pisa sought to resign the spiritual care of the Second Order (Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, October,
1910, 664-79). The first quarter of the sixteenth century witnessed a widespread revival of the Urbanist Rule. Towards the end of the same century, though the religious wars had destroyed many monasteries, there were about six hundred houses in existence. Subsequently the order experienced a rapid growth and the external development of the Poor Clares appears to have reached its culmination about 1630 in 925 monasteries with 34,000 sisters under the direction of the minister general. If we can credit contemporary chroniclers, there were still more sisters under the direction of the bishops, making the entire number about 70,000. After the opening years of the eighteenth century the order declined and the French Revolution and the subsequent policy of secularization almost totally destroyed it, except in Spain, where the monasteries were undisturbed.
bonne chance
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