The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena / / F. Thomas Luongo.

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) has become a defining figure in the history of medieval religion and one of the main exemplars of the "feminine turn" in late medieval religious culture. Despite a hagiographical tradition and historiography that has placed Catherine at a mystic remove...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.) :; 2 maps, 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Brief Chronology
  • Introduction
  • 1. Catherine's Vocational Years: Worldliness and Female Sanctity
  • 2. Catherine Enters Tuscan Politics: Networks and Letter Writing
  • 3. Niccolo di Toldo and the Erotics of Political Engagement
  • 4. Catherine's Sienese famiglia: Pious Networks and Political Identities
  • 5. Prophetic Politics: Catherine in the War of Eight Saints
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index