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The politics of marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378) /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378) // Francis Thomas Luongo.
Author:	Luongo, Francis Thomas,
Description:	1 electronic resource (353 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International59-11A.
Subject:	Middle Ages. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9817759
ISBN:	9780591691580

The politics of marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378) /
Luongo, Francis Thomas,

The politics of marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378) /Francis Thomas Luongo. - 1 electronic resource (353 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-11, Section: A.

Catherine of Siena (c. 1347-1380) was famous, and in some quarters notorious, for boldly intervening in worldly affairs. Yet her own statements, as well as the writings of her clerical promoters, represent her authority as deriving from conformity to an accepted model of the female saint: a virgin who spoke with prophetic force from beyond social and political margins. This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the particular social and political context of Catherine's career in order to provide a new reading of her letters--one of the largest and most important collections of letters in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. It shows that while Catherine speaks as if from a prophetic remove, her rhetoric of marginalities licenses her public interventions and allows her to engage the political in a special way. What emerges is a new understanding of Catherine--her career and writings--as bound inextricably to the specific dynamics of Tuscan politics during the dispute between the Papacy and Florence and other Italian city-states known as the "War of Eight Saints." This study begins with a deconstruction of the hagiographic tradition that has written Catherine out of politics and then proceeds to recontextualize Catherine as a political actor. It reads her letters chronologically within a narrative of the events connected with the political disputes of the 1370s, presenting Catherine as a participant in a papal campaign to contain opposition to the political authority of the Church in Italy, and revealing an often latent political meaning in her letters during the War of Eight Saints. Having laid this foundation for understanding Catherine's political activity, it describes the socio-political complexions of Catherine's biological and spiritual families, showing in this way how Catherine was linked to Sienese party politics and exposing for Catherine's lay Sienese followers the sometimes problematic relationship between their commitments to Catherine and her cause, and their identities as participants in Sienese social life. Finally, the instillations of this recontextualization of Catherine's letters are dramatized in a close reading of one especially famous and politically meaningful letter: Catherine's account of the execution of Niccolo di Toldo.

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ISBN: 9780591691580Subjects--Topical Terms:

568537
Middle Ages.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Catherine of Siena, Saint

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