TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Jennifer N.
TI  - Fruit of the orchard: reading Catherine of Siena in late medieval and early modern England 
SN  - 9781487519384
AV  - BX4700 .F785 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Catherine,
KW  - Devotional literature, English (Middle)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Christian women saints
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction --; Finding Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England; 1 Compiling Catherine: The Visionary Woman, Stephen Maconi, and the Carthusian Audience; 2 William Flete, English Spirituality, and Catherine of Siena; 3 Catherine Excerpted: Reading the Miscellany; 4 The Orcherd of Syon: How to Read in the Convent; 5 Catherine in Print: Lay Audiences and Reading Hagiography; Conclusion --; Reforming Reading: Catherine of Siena in an Age of Reform; Appendix A: Literary Ancestry Chart; Appendix B: Catherine Texts in England; Notes; Bibliography; 2; b
N2  - "Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil."--
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