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Author:   Carolyn Muessig ,  George Ferzoco ,  Beverly Kienzle ,  Beverly Kienzle
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.855kg
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9789004205550

ISBN 10:   9004205551
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   25 November 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations, Tables, and Appendices Timeline for Catherine of Siena’s Life Introduction: A Companion to Catherine of Siena Carolyn Muessig Chapter One: The Historical Reception of Catherine of Siena F. Thomas Luongo Chapter Two: Female Urban Reclusion in Siena at the time of Catherine of Siena Allison Clark Thurber Chapter Three: Catherine of Siena and the Papacy Blake Beattie Chapter Four: Lacrime cordiali: Catherine of Siena on the Value of Tears Heather Webb Chapter Five: Denial as Action—Penance and its Place in the Life of Catherine of Siena Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner Chapter Six: Catherine of Siena, Preaching, and Hagiography in Renaissance Tuscany Beverly Mayne Kienzle Chapter Seven: Mystical Literacy: Writing and Religious Women in Late Medieval Italy Jane Tylus Chapter Eight: The Processo Castellano and the Canonization of Catherine of Siena George Ferzoco Chapter Nine: Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Sermons Carolyn Muessig Chapter Ten: Laude for Catherine of Siena Eliana Corbari Chapter Eleven: The Iconography of Catherine of Siena’s Stigmata Diega Giunta Chapter Twelve: The Writings of Catherine of Siena: The Manuscript Tradition Suzanne Noffke Chapter Thirteen: The Legenda maior of Catherine of Siena Silvia Nocentini Manuscripts Cited Bibliography Index

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This collection, taken as a whole, succeeds in its aim of providing, in English, an overview of Catherine of Siena, her context, her reception both immediate and over several centuries, and of a range of scholarly approaches to her life and significance. Gerald Parsons, The Open University, United Kingdom. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 99, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 135-137.

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Carolyn Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Sciences médiévales, Université de Montréal is Reader of Medieval Religion, University of Bristol. She has published extensively on medieval preaching including the Expositiones euangeliorum Sanctae Hildegardis (co-editor B.M. Kienzle), in Hildegardis Bingensis. Opera Minora (2007). George Ferzoco is Research Fellow, University of Bristol. His research deals mainly with medieval propaganda, especially in relation to saints' cults. His publications include Medieval Monastic Education (co-editor Carolyn Muessig, 2001) and The Massa Marittima Mural (Florence, 2005). Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Ph.D. (1978), Boston College, is John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School. Her extensive publications include The Sermon (2000) and Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies (2009).

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