Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include literature and politics as well as religious issues in the later Middle Ages. She is the author of many articles and numerous books and translations, including The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan (W. W. Norton, 1997) and Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378–1417 (Penn State Press, 2006).