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Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II. Edited by Carl-Gustaf Undhagen and Birger Bergh. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 2001. Pp. 128. SEK 152 paperback.)

The publication of this volume and of H. Aili's edition of Revelaciones, Book VIII, also in 2001, brings to completion the twelve-volume critical edition of the texts of Saint Birgitta begun some fifty years ago. The impact of this meticulous labor of love by a series of devoted scholars can be seen in the growing interest in this extraordinary seer in recent scholarship. Birgitta and her younger contemporary, Catherine of Siena, are the most remarkable examples of a female leadership role that sprang to life in the ...

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