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... those in art history to study objects and also texts normally regarded as outside of their purview. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 objects humanities teaching n'kisi n'kondi Marilynne Robinson medieval nuns Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom...

...Susan R. Kramer [email protected] Anna Harrison , Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta (Collegeville, MN : Liturgical , 2022), 536 pp. Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 There is little evidence that speaks...

... American in ate Uta Gosmann Nuns as Artists as Nuns F. Jeffrey Hamburger Lady Margaret Hall, is the author of author the is Hall, Margaret Lady Jenkyns Richard America. of Association Medieval...

... this sixth chapter in her 1991 essay collection Fragmentation and Redemption with two disturbing visions of Christ—as carved-up flesh and as crucified nun—that “startle the modern reader.” She exhorts us to “recognize the essential strangeness of medieval religious experience.” 2 But like any skilled...

... with nation-building. Helen Cooper, formerly head of the Oxford English Faculty, is now professor of medieval and Renaissance English literature at Cambridge University and a fellow of Magdalene College. She is author of The English Romance in Time: Transforming...

... writings and that she induced in reading medieval lives about women. Women feasted on the Eucharist. They gave voice to their longing and love for God in food-related imagery: “If I had you, I'd eat you up, I love you so much,” a fourteenth-century nun from the monastery of Engelthal said to the Baby...

... Renaissance, and A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University...

..., and Royal Historical Society. His books include The Reformation of the Twelfth Century, Cul- ture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe, Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought, Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries, and Love and Do What You Will: The Medieval History...

... John Forrester John and atcomparative studies, literature the University of Toronto. at Princeton University and, currently, adjunct professor of history, anthropology, medieval the Toynbee Prize in social science, she is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History Worlds between Margins...

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... of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anne E. Lester , John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochen Associate Professor of Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne . Presently she...

... into productive catalysts for a vibrant form of affective theology. Hamburger's subsequent studies of religious women's creative agency—from Nuns as Artists (1997) to The Prayer-Book of Ursula Begerin , coauthored with Nigel Palmer (2015), along with the blockbuster exhibition (2005) on medieval convent arts...

... studies at Loyola Marymount University, is the author of Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta . John Stratton Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

... history: of writing the reshaped radically has focus havelately attention focused ongroups This previously offas marginal. written inserts itself at the junction of debates over power, sexuality, and victimhood that tion: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment in Medieval Culture bymy ofreading...

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... and Sciences, he is the author of Leaves from Paradise; St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology; The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany; Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent...

...: The Great Estancias. New Directions will publish a series of his novels in transla- tion, beginning with An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (scheduled for spring 2006) and How I Became a Nun (fall 2006). Chris Andrews received the Premio Valle Inclán Prize...

...: The Great Estancias. New Directions will publish a series of his novels in transla- tion, beginning with An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (scheduled for spring 2006) and How I Became a Nun (fall 2006). Chris Andrews received the Premio Valle Inclán Prize...

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.... A woman is a temptress who distracts the ascetic from his path toward freedom: “With stylish hair and painted eyes . . . women are like the flame or sin and burn a man like straw.” 9 And this attitude is not restricted to male ascetics. In early Buddhist literature, there is the story of a nun...