A Companion to Catherine of Siena
Edited by Carolyn Muessig, George Ferzoco and Beverly Mayne Kienzle
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Biographical note
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).
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).
Readership
All those interested in Catherine of Siena, the 14th-century papacy, gender studies, hagiography, Italy in the later Middle Ages, literacy, medieval religious devotion, manuscript history.
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
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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