Companion to Catherine of Siena

Carolyn Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Sciences médiévales, Université de Montréal is Reader of Medieval Religion, University of Bristol. She has published extensively on medieval preaching including the Expositiones euangeliorum Sanctae Hildegardis (co-editor B.M. Kienzle), in Hildegardis Bingensis. Opera Minora (2007).George Ferzoco is Research Fellow, University of Bristol. His research deals mainly with medieval propaganda, especially in relation to saints' cults. His publications include Medieval Monastic Education (co-editor Carolyn Muessig, 2001) and The Massa Marittima Mural (Florence, 2005).Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Ph.D. (1978), Boston College, is John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School. Her extensive publications include The Sermon (2000) and Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies (2009).

“This collection, taken as a whole, succeeds in its aim of providing, in English, an overview of Catherine of Siena, her context, her reception both immediate and over several centuries, and of a range of scholarly approaches to her life and significance.”Gerald Parsons, The Open University, United Kingdom. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 99, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 135-137.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsList of Illustrations, Tables, and AppendicesTimeline for Catherine of Siena’s LifeIntroduction: A Companion to Catherine of SienaCarolyn MuessigChapter One: The Historical Reception of Catherine of Siena F. Thomas LuongoChapter Two: Female Urban Reclusion in Siena at the time of Catherine of Siena Allison Clark ThurberChapter Three: Catherine of Siena and the Papacy Blake BeattieChapter Four: Lacrime cordiali: Catherine of Siena on the Value of Tears Heather WebbChapter Five: Denial as Action—Penance and its Place in the Life of Catherine of Siena Maiju Lehmijoki-GardnerChapter Six: Catherine of Siena, Preaching, and Hagiography in Renaissance Tuscany Beverly Mayne KienzleChapter Seven: Mystical Literacy: Writing and Religious Women in Late Medieval Italy Jane TylusChapter Eight: The Processo Castellano and the Canonization of Catherine of Siena George FerzocoChapter Nine: Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Sermons Carolyn MuessigChapter Ten: Laude for Catherine of Siena Eliana CorbariChapter Eleven: The Iconography of Catherine of Siena’s Stigmata Diega GiuntaChapter Twelve: The Writings of Catherine of Siena: The Manuscript Tradition Suzanne NoffkeChapter Thirteen: The Legenda maior of Catherine of Siena Silvia NocentiniManuscripts CitedBibliographyIndex