1. Monastic Politics: St. Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Monastic Politics: St. Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy 11
5. 2. Strategic Saints and Diplomatic Devotion: Margaret of York, Anne d’Orléans, and Female Political Action 36
6. 3. The Sword and the Cloister: Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and Christine de Pizan in England, 1445–1540 58
7. 4. Religion and Female Rule: Isabel of Castile and the Construction of Queenship 87
8. 5. The Mystic, the Monarch, and the Persistence of “the Medieval”: Elizabeth Barton and Henry VIII 119
9. 6. Dissolution, Diaspora, and DeWning Englishness: Syon in Exile and Elizabethan Politics 139
10. Conclusion: The Power of the Past 168
11. Notes 181
12. Works Cited 235
13. Index 251
14. Acknowledgments 263