Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (1990) and Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997).

“Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski writes with a real sympathy for her subjects, who emerge as flesh-and-blood humans struggling to make sense of a profound crisis that threatens to undermine their faith in the clergy. No book more vividly tells the story of the Great Schism or brings together a more fascinating set of characters and texts from the period. I can think of no finer introduction to the workings of the minds of medieval people than Poets, Saints, and Visionaries.”—Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsPopes During the Great SchismMapsIntroduction1. A Twelfth-Century Prelude: Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, John of Salisbury, and the Schism of 11592.Saints and Visionaries I: From the 1360s to the Beginnings of the Schism3.Saints and Visionaries II: The Later Schism Years4.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism I: Philippe de Mézières and Eustache Deschamps5.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism II: Honoré Bovet and Christine de Pizan6.Prophets of the Great SchismConclusionBibliographyIndex

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (1990) and Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997).

“Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski writes with a real sympathy for her subjects, who emerge as flesh-and-blood humans struggling to make sense of a profound crisis that threatens to undermine their faith in the clergy. No book more vividly tells the story of the Great Schism or brings together a more fascinating set of characters and texts from the period. I can think of no finer introduction to the workings of the minds of medieval people than Poets, Saints, and Visionaries.”—Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsPopes During the Great SchismMapsIntroduction1. A Twelfth-Century Prelude: Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, John of Salisbury, and the Schism of 11592.Saints and Visionaries I: From the 1360s to the Beginnings of the Schism3.Saints and Visionaries II: The Later Schism Years4.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism I: Philippe de Mézières and Eustache Deschamps5.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism II: Honoré Bovet and Christine de Pizan6.Prophets of the Great SchismConclusionBibliographyIndex

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (1990) and Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997).

“Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski writes with a real sympathy for her subjects, who emerge as flesh-and-blood humans struggling to make sense of a profound crisis that threatens to undermine their faith in the clergy. No book more vividly tells the story of the Great Schism or brings together a more fascinating set of characters and texts from the period. I can think of no finer introduction to the workings of the minds of medieval people than Poets, Saints, and Visionaries.”—Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsPopes During the Great SchismMapsIntroduction1. A Twelfth-Century Prelude: Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, John of Salisbury, and the Schism of 11592.Saints and Visionaries I: From the 1360s to the Beginnings of the Schism3.Saints and Visionaries II: The Later Schism Years4.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism I: Philippe de Mézières and Eustache Deschamps5.Poetic Visions of the Great Schism II: Honoré Bovet and Christine de Pizan6.Prophets of the Great SchismConclusionBibliographyIndex