To govern is to serve : an essay on medieval democracy / Jacques Dalarun ; translated and with an introduction by Sean L. Field ; foreword by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Anne E. Leste.
"Explores the world of medieval inversions-- the first shall be last and the superior is the servant--through an episode in which the abbess Clare of Assisi washes the feet of a serving sister; religious movements that sought their superiors from less exalted members of their communities; and a...
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