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

De Vaux, Pierre/ De Baume, Sister Perrine/ Blumenfeld-kosi, Renate

Iter Press（2022/06発売）

Iter Press（2022/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 308 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781649590664
• DDC分類 B

Full Description

Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie.

Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) was a French reformer of the Franciscan Order and the founder of seventeen convents. Though of humble origin, she attracted the support of powerful patrons and important Church officials. The two biographies translated here were authored by Pierre de Vaux, her confessor and mentor, and Perrine de Baume, a nun who for decades was Colette's companion and confidant. Both accounts offer fascinating portraits of the saint as a pious ascetic assailed by demons and performing miracles, as well as in her role as skillful administrator and caring mother of her nuns. This is the first English translation of two biographies in Middle French of the most important female figures of the Middle Ages. 
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction
Saint Colette in Her World
Schism and Division
The Franciscans and Reform
A Brief Biography of Colette of Corbie
The Sources
Early Life and Religious Exploration
Franciscan Reformer
Colette and Ecclesiastical Politics
Colette in Her Cloister—and on the Road
Writing and Living Reform
Devotional Life
Illnesses
Miracles
Demons, Ghosts, and Other Apparitions
The Life of Saint Colette, by Pierre de Vaux
The Life of Saint Colette, by Sister Perrine de Baume
Letters by, to, and about Colette
Map
Chronology
Bibliography
Index