Pierre de Vaux was a Franciscan friar. He was the companion and confessor of Saint Colette of Corbie, as well as her biographer.
Pierre de Vaux was a Franciscan friar. He was the companion and confessor of Saint Colette of Corbie, as well as her biographer. Sister Perrine de Baume was a Colettine Poor Clare. Her memoirs serve as a testimony to the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is distinguished professor of French emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims and Christine de Pizan.
Sister Perrine de Baume was a Colettine Poor Clare. Her memoirs serve as a testimony to the life of Saint Colette of Corbie
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her many publications include The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan (1997), Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997), Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378–1417 (2006), and The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman between Demons and Saints (2015). With Bruce L. Venarde she published Two Women of the Great Schism in the present series (2010).
