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      Continental women mystics and English readers

      Barratt, Alexandra
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      Barratt, A. (2003). Continental women mystics and English readers. In C. Dinshaw & D. Wallace (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (pp. 240-255). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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      In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden. Vadstena was the mother-house of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour and had been founded by the controversial continental mystic St Bridget of Sweden, who had died in 1373 and had been canonized in Fitzhugh was so impressed by what he saw that he gave one of his manors near Cambridge as the future site for an English Bridgettine foundation. It was not until 1415 that Henry V, son of Henry IV, laid the foundation-stone of Syon Abbey at Twickenham in Middlesex and Fitzhugh's dream became a reality. But Fitzhugh's generous gesture is an indication of the degree of pious and aristocratic interest in the Swedish visionary and prophet in early fifteenth-century England.
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      2003
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      Cambridge University Press
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      This book chapter has been published by Cambridge University Press. © 2003 Cambridge University Press. Used with permission.
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