Portals To Intimacy: The Cult of the Side Wound in Fifteenth-Century England

Denise L. Despres is a professor of English, Humanities, and Honors at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches writing, literature, and interdisciplinary courses on medieval culture. Her first book, Ghostly Sights (1989) revised her Indiana University, Bloomington, doctoral dissertation on the influence of the Meditations on the Life of Christ on Middle English literature. She coauthored Iconography and the Professional Reader with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (1999), then produced a series of articles on cult, Marian devotion, and medieval anti-Judaism. She continues to study late-medieval religion and material culture.