Two Lives of Saint Colette - With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette

Includes translations based on Vaux's1494 manuscript that was housed at the convent of the Poor Clares in Amiens, now in the archives at Amiens, and Baume's known as Manuscript 2 in the Monasterium "Bethlehem" of the Zusters Clarissen-Coletienen in Ghent, and a copy made in 1494 from the original.

About the author

Pierre de Vaux was a Franciscan friar. He was the companion and confessor of Saint Colette of Corbie, as well as her biographer. Sister Perrine de Baume was a Colettine Poor Clare. Her memoirs serve as a testimony to the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is distinguished professor of French emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims and Christine de Pizan.

Product details

• Authors: Renate BlumenfeldâEUR¿kosi, Renate Blumenfeld-kosi, Sister Perrine de Baume, Pierre De Vaux
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2022
• EAN: 9781649590664
• ISBN: 978-1-64959-066-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 512 g
• Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries