A naive question addressed to Julia Bolton Holloway:
Did Birgitta of Sweden (or any of the other later medieval female saints
you study) have definite ideas/predications/moral opinions about the
crusades? Catherine of Siena's views are fairly well-known (especially in
relation to Giovanni Acuto); Joan of Arc may have (I believe) wanted to
crusade against the Hussites after the Anglo-French conflict was over...but
the others?
Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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