Professor Claire Shalin teaches at Texas Women's University.

Sahlin undertakes with verve and scholarship the task of placing Birgitta's remarkable career in its context, identifying her supporters and critics and comparing her and her message with that of othr female visionaries... A fine contribution to the growing literature on Birgitta and the Brigittine Order.

• Prophecy in the Christian tradition - a "double bind" for women; the life and "Revelations" of Birgitta; bride and channel of the Holy Spirit - Birgitta's vocation as visionary prophet; mystical pregnancy and prophecy in the "Revelations" - Birgitta's identification with the Virgin Mary; submission, role reversals and partnerships - Birgitta and her clerical associates; doubts, derision and denunciations - negative responses to Birgitta's voice of prophecy; "Revelatrix" of divine wisdom - justifications for God's selection of a female prophet.

Professor Claire Shalin teaches at Texas Women's University.

Sahlin undertakes with verve and scholarship the task of placing Birgitta's remarkable career in its context, identifying her supporters and critics and comparing her and her message with that of othr female visionaries... A fine contribution to the growing literature on Birgitta and the Brigittine Order.

• Prophecy in the Christian tradition - a "double bind" for women; the life and "Revelations" of Birgitta; bride and channel of the Holy Spirit - Birgitta's vocation as visionary prophet; mystical pregnancy and prophecy in the "Revelations" - Birgitta's identification with the Virgin Mary; submission, role reversals and partnerships - Birgitta and her clerical associates; doubts, derision and denunciations - negative responses to Birgitta's voice of prophecy; "Revelatrix" of divine wisdom - justifications for God's selection of a female prophet.

Professor Claire Shalin teaches at Texas Women's University.

Sahlin undertakes with verve and scholarship the task of placing Birgitta's remarkable career in its context, identifying her supporters and critics and comparing her and her message with that of othr female visionaries... A fine contribution to the growing literature on Birgitta and the Brigittine Order.

• Prophecy in the Christian tradition - a "double bind" for women; the life and "Revelations" of Birgitta; bride and channel of the Holy Spirit - Birgitta's vocation as visionary prophet; mystical pregnancy and prophecy in the "Revelations" - Birgitta's identification with the Virgin Mary; submission, role reversals and partnerships - Birgitta and her clerical associates; doubts, derision and denunciations - negative responses to Birgitta's voice of prophecy; "Revelatrix" of divine wisdom - justifications for God's selection of a female prophet.