Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book III

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Sancta Birgitta: Revelaciones, Book Ill. Edited by Ann-Mari Jonsson. [Kungl. Vit terhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien.] Stockholm: Almqvist & Wik sell, 1998. Pp. 251. SEK 231 paperback.)

St. Birgitta of Sweden (c. 1303-1373), like so many medieval women, has profited from the revivial of interest in the role of female visionaries and mystics in the later Middle Ages. Like Hildegard of Bingen two centuries before, Birgitta was an aristocrat who carved out a special role as a mouthpiece, or "channel" (canalis in the text of her showings), of divine warnings to recalcitrant sinners. ...

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