Sanctity and Female Authorship (eBook, ePUB)

Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena
Redaktion: Oen, Maria H.; Falkeid, Unn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this comparative study, leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds offer, for the very first time, a comprehensive exploration of the lives and activities of Birgitta and Catherine in tandem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000703092
• Artikelnr.: 57898975

Autorenporträt

Maria H. Oen is Associate Professor of Art History and Deputy Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. She is also the editor of A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden and Her Legacy in the Later Middle Ages (Brill, 2019). Unn Falkeid is Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. She is the author of The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017), and co-editor, with Albert Russel Ascoli, of The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and with Aileen A. Feng, of Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (Ashgate, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1) F. Thomas Luongo: "Birgitta and Catherine and their Textual Communities"

2) Jane Tylus: "'Su dunque, peregrine!': Pilgrimage and Female Spirituality in the Writings of Birgitta and Catherine"

3) Unn Falkeid:"Constructing Female Authority: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, and the two Marys"

4) Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski: "Saint Birgitta's and Saint Catherine's Visions of Crusading"

5) Silvia Nocentini: "The Transmission of Birgittine and Catherinian Works within the Mystical Tradition: Exchanges, Cross-readings, Connections"

6) Maria H. Oen: "Ambivalent Images of Authorship"

7) Roger Andersson: "Saints Catherine and Birgitta as Received by Preachers"

8) Gábor Klaniczay: "The Mystical Pregnancy of Birgitta and the Invisible Stigmata of Catherine: Bodily Signs of Supernatural Communication in the Lives of the Two Mystics"

9) Camille Rouxpetel: "The Crossing Paths of Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, and Alfonso of Jaén"

Epilogue by André Vauchez