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Ten scholars offer a comprehensive introduction to one of the most celebrated visionaries of the Middle Ages. The essays focus on Birgitta as an author, the rec

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A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface,