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Catherine, --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da,

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This study offers a substantial introduction to the world of Catherine of Siena (1347-80), her works and the way her followers responded to her religious leadership and legacy. Although much scholarship has dealt with her visionary reputation, this volume, written by experts in Catherinian studies, highlights her image as a church reformer, peacemaker, preacher, author, holy woman, stigmatic, saint and politically astute person. Furthermore, it assesses the manuscript tradition of works by and about Catherine of Siena. Few overviews of the historical and cultural circumstances of Catherine of Siena exist in English. A Companion to Catherine of Siena, therefore, makes accessible hitherto elusive details of this Sienese saint’s life and works.

Catherine of Siena --- Christian women saints --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Catherine, --- Siena (Italy) --- Sienne (Italie) --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da, --- Catharina v. Senensis --- Catherine, - of Siena, Saint, - 1347-1380

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La Legenda Maior è la prima agiografia di Caterina da Siena e rappresenta un testo di fondamentale importanza per lo studio della spiritualità medievale e moderna. Raimondo da Capua, suo ultimo confessore, la scrisse nel corso di dieci anni, dal 1385 al 1395, creando così un canone agiografico in cui la storia terrena della santa è impreziosita da un inquadramento teologico che trae nutrimento dalla forte spiritualità cateriniana, orientata alla mistica e accompagnata dalla tradizione erudita domenicana. L'imponenza del testo e la sua lunga gestazione gli hanno meritato l'appellativo di prolixa o maior, dimostrando quanto il confessore di Caterina, ma anche i suoi discepoli e segretari, trovassero arduo il dover illustrare, con i topoi propri dell'agiografia del loro tempo, l'esperienza divina fatta dalla santa senese e, di riflesso, da loro stessi.

Christian women saints --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Catherine, --- Raymond, --- 235.3 CATHARINA SENENSIS --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Hagiografie--CATHARINA SENENSIS --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da, --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Catharina v. Senensis

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"In an age when most women were shuttered in kitchens or convents, Catherine--the unschooled daughter of a Sienese dyer--engaged in political, social, and spiritual activism. Enflamed by her convictions and mystical devotion, she strove to restore harmony to the world and to lift up the people. She contended with popes, monarchs, and ordinary citizens, cajoling, begging, and--when nothing else worked--commanding people to do her will. She campaigned for peace among the warring factions of her native Tuscany, struggled to reform the church, and helped persuade Pope Gregory XI to leave Avignon and return to Rome. For all this she was both praised and reviled, revered as a holy woman by her friends and disciples, and nearly assassinated by some of her enemies. Exhausted by work and austerities, she died when she was only thirty-three years old--all-consumed by her inner fire"--Cover, p. 2.

Christian saints --- 235.3 CATHARINA SENENSIS --- 248-055.2 --- 248-055.2 Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Hagiografie--CATHARINA SENENSIS --- Catherine, --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da, --- Catherine of Siena

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Christian saints --- #GGSB: Geestelijke lezing (geel) --- #GGSB: Heiligen --- #GGSB: Mystiek --- Catherine, --- Benincasa, Caterina, --- Catalina, --- Catarina, --- Caterina, --- Caterina da Siena, --- Catharina, --- Catharine, --- Chatarina, --- Chaterina, --- Katharina, --- Katherina, --- Siena, Caterina da, --- Catherine of Siena --- Geestelijke lezing (geel) --- Heiligen --- Mystiek --- Catharina v. Senensis --- Catherine, - of Siena, Saint, - 1347-1380