For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by two--and eventually three--competing popes. The so-called Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting anxiety throughout Europe--an anxiety that reverberated throughout clerical circles and among the ordinary faithful. In Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks beyond the political and ecclesiastical...