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Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe. By Philip Daileader. [The New Middle Ages Series]. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. Pp. 282. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-137-54041-6.)
The medieval Dominican saint Vincent Ferrer, who conducted a twenty-year preaching campaign throughout continental Europe and played a decisive role in contemporary ecclesiastical and political affairs, has long attracted scholarly attention, particularly in his native Iberia. Scholars have consequently produced a relatively large collection of edited primary sources by and about the saint as well as a plethora of geographically and topically specific studies about various aspects of the saint's activities and thought. What has been notably lacking from this wealth of published materials, however, has been a single cohesive and comprehensive survey of the charismatic preacher revealed by these sources. Philip Daileader's wellresearched study of Ferrer's life fills this scholarly lacuna.
The monograph recreates the events of Ferrer's life and presents...