
Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain''s non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe''s struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, ...
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain''s non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe''s struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, ...