Description
Book SynopsisLuongo investigates how Catherine's spiritual authority and sanctity were linked with contemporary political and cultural developments.
Trade ReviewThis is an important book. Luongo examines the career of Catherine of Siena... in a new light and offers a picture of Catherine that diverges from those presented by her hagiographers,... biographers, and more recently, scholars of medieval women's religiousness.... Luongo's portrayal of Catherine is exciting and compelling: exciting in revealing the intrigue and danger in which Catherine actively participated, compelling in its evidence and interpretation.... The book unquestionably stands as a major contribution to the history of medieval Christianity.
-- Anne L. Clark * Church History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Catherine's Vocational Years: Worldliness and Female Sanctity
2. Catherine Enters Tuscan Politics: Networks and Letter Writing
3. Niccolò 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
