Falkeid, Unn
(ed.)
Wainwright, Anna
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 242
Número de páginas: págs.
Fecha de edición: 21-12-2023
EAN: 9789004431782
ISBN: 978-90-04-43178-2
Precio (sin IVA): 157,94 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 164,26 €
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts?