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 from the politics of her day, Catherine's public authority was shaped by politics, both locally in Siena and broadly within late-fourteenth-century contests between the papacy and the Republic of Florence for hegemony in central Italy.
In The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena, F....
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 "feminin...
