Clare of Assisi: Gentle WarriorClare of Assisi is generally known as the female friend of Saint Francis of Assisi and for centuries her legacy has remained obscured by his shadow. Yet Clares life and story ought to shine in its own light and on its own terms (her name, after all, means light). She is a figure of true heroism, tenacity, beatitude and grit who plotted her improbable course in the context of the raucous and explosive period of the Middle Ages. Much went wrong for