St. Birgitta of Sweden was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Her revelations influenced the spiritual lives of many individuals including Martin Luther. Interest in Birgitta has grown recently and she is now admired as a pow…
This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its institutional and doctrinal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450-1650. With dee…
"In Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity Lucy Grig focuses on both artistic and textual representations to investigate the making of martyrs in the fourth- and fifth-century Latin West. She shows that this 'making' of martyrs played a crucial role in the process of Christianisation …
