The Blood-Drinking Bride of Christ (TRIH ep 356)
1370 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) examines the life, mystical experiences, and political influence of Saint Catherine of Siena (born 25 March 1347). The hosts set her life against the turbulent 14th century — climate failure, famine, the Hundred Years' War, the Avignon Papacy, and the Black Death that struck Siena in 1348. They trace Catherine’s childhood, visions, ascetic practices (extreme fasting, hair-cutting, mortification), alleged miracles an...
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Around 1370
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)