Article: The Political Ideas of St. Birgitta and Her Spanish Confessor Alfonso Pecha, Liber celestis imperatoris ad reges: A Mirror of Princes.

One of the most vexing problems concerning St. Birgitta of Sweden (1302/3--1373) and her voluminous revelations continues to be the editorial activity of her father-confessors. Birgitta's visions are mediated to us through devoted clerics, who translated them from Old Swedish into Latin, arranged them into chapters and books, and supplemented them with chapter headings and other materials. Much scholarly work seeks to discern the confessors' editorial procedures and define the extent of their editorial activities. This study--a dissertation written under the direction of Dr. Tore Nyberg, the prominent historian of the Birgittine Order--provides insight into the political ...

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