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St Birgitta of Sweden
Author:  Bridget Morris
Published:  1999
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd
St Birgitta of Sweden was one of the most charismatic figures in the late medieval mystical tradition. In Rome she succeeded in commanding prelates and popes, and throughout the courts of Europe she engaged in political secular intrigues; she married and produced eight children, yet became the only woman in the fourteenth century to be canonised; and in an age where new monastic foundations were proscribed, she founded an order of her own devising, primarily for women.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15727-6

Price:  £40.00
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England
Author:  Katherine J. Lewis
Published:  2000
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety of contexts, in association with concepts of royal and civic power, by the end of the period becoming identified as a British saint, and acting as a model of the ideal lay Christian and a paradigm of femininity and young womanhood.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15773-3

Price:  £50.00
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