The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden

Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-43178-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 242, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

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? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy.

Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falkeid, Unn

Wainwright, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright

1 Birgitta and Pseudo-Birgitta: Textual Circulation and Perceptions of the Saint

Brian Richardson

2 Making Birgitta Italian: The Time of Translation

Jane Tylus

3 Prophetic Theology: The Santa Brigida da Paradiso in Florence

Isabella Gagliardi

4 A Lineage of Apocalyptic Queens: The Portrayal of Birgitta of Sweden in Domenica Narducci’s Sermon to Caterina Cibo (1533)

Clara Stella

5 The Fifteen Prayers Attributed to Birgitta and Their Circulation in Early Modern Italy: Private Devotion, Heterodoxy, and Censorship

Marco Faini

6 Ventriloquizing Birgitta: The Saint’s Prophetic Voice During the Italian Wars

Jessica Goethals and Anna Wainwright

7 The Semantics of Obedience. Birgittine Influences on Paola Antonia Negri’s Letters

Eleonora Cappuccilli

8 Discourses on the Virgin Mary: Birgitta of Sweden and Chiara Matraini

Eleonora Carinci

9 “Consenti, o pia, ch’in lagrimosi carmi …:” Birgitta in the Verse, Thought, and Artistic Commissions of Angelo Grillo

Virginia Cox

10 “The Most Illustrious and Divine of All the Sibyls.” Saint Birgitta in the Prophetic Visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen Cristina of Sweden

Unn Falkeid

Appendix: One Life, Many Hagiographers: The Earliest Vitae of Birgitta of Sweden

Silvia Nocentini

Bibliography

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Unn Falkeid, Ph.D (2006) is Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on medieval and early modern literature, including The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (2017).



Anna Wainwright, Ph. D. (2017) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has published on gender and religion in the Italian Renaissance, and is co-editor of the volume Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (2020).