The Birgittine Experience: Papers from the Birgitta Conference in Stockholm 2011

The Birgittine Experience – A Preface 7
Ville Walta / Birgittine Fragments in Finland: Reconstructing Naantali Abbey’s Library 11
Anna Wolodarski / The Vadstena Library: Making New Discoveries 30
Veronica O’Mara / Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context 54
Stuart Forbes / The Birgittine Abbey of Syon: The Burials of the Sisters and Brothers in the Abbey Church 73
Kersti Markus: The Pirita Convent in Tallinn: A Powerful Visual Symbol for the Self-Consciousness of the Birgittine Order 93
Elina Räsänen / The \'Vallis gratiae\' Altar Frontlet: Object, Imagery, and Deconstruction of the \'Artist\' 109
Angela Kappeler / The Birgittine Linen Crown 136
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby / Saint Birgitta of Sweden in Florentine Art 171
Maria Husabø Oen / Sight, Body, and Imagery in the Visionary Experiences of Birgitta 190
Søren Kaspersen / \'Birgittine\' Wall Paintings?: A Reconsideration of a Disputed Phenomenon 209
Emilia Żochowska / Magister Mathias of Linköping and Saint Birgitta of Sweden: A Fellowship of Imagination 227
Corine Schleif / The Art of Walking and Viewing: Christ, the Virgin, Saint Birgitta, and the Birgittines Processing through the Cloister 241
Volker Schier / Writing and Rewriting Processions: The Reworking of the Procession Liturgy by the Birgittine Nuns of South Germany 268
Eva-Marie Letzter / Teaching by Example: Exempla Used in Birgitta’s \'Revelations\' and in Old Swedish Popular Sermons 288
Leena Enqvist / Syon Abbey and the List of Faults: An Example of Shaping Social Life in a Medieval Birgittine Community 307
Nils Dverstorp / Evidence for Commercial Book Production in Vadstena Abbey? 323
Roger Andersson / A Modern Edition of the Old Swedish Text of the \'Revelations\' 332
Ingela Hedström / One Customary to Rule Them All: On the \'Lucidarium\' and its Transmission 351
Jonathan Adams / Analysing Language Mixture in a Medieval Birgittine Manuscript: Method and Findings 370
The authors 396