Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417

For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by two-and eventually three--"competing popes. The so-called Great Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting anxiety throughout Europe--"an anxiety that reverberated throughout clerical circles and among the ordinary faithful. In

About the author

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).

Summary

In Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks beyond the political and ecclesiastical storm and finds an outpouring of artistic, literary, and visionary responses to one of the great calamities of the late Middle Ages.

Product details

• Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate (University of Pittsburgh) Blumenfeld-Kosinski
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2006
• EAN: 9780271027494
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02749-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 236 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages