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Tempting the Tempter: Imitatio Christi and the Encounters of Quattrocento Holy Women With the Devil (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 204)
9004537406 pdf Tempting the Tempter considers the extent to which fifteenth-century Italian holy women were willing to go in their efforts to imitate Christ, and how their biographers used their struggles with demonic temptations to promote their causes for sainthood.