Harvard Divinity School

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Faculty of Divinity

 

Beverly Mayne Kienzle

John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages, Lecturer on Medieval Christianity, and Director of Language Studies

BA, University of Maryland
AM, PhD, Boston College

Professor Beverly Kienzle

office: Andover 124 
telephone: 617.496.2897
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Beverly Mayne Kienzle began teaching at HDS in 1986 and was appointed director of language studies and of the Summer Language Program in 1993. Her courses on Christian Latin and medieval Christianity emphasize the careful examination of primary sources and the role of texts in medieval culture. As past president of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, she channels her passion for medieval sermons into her teaching and her publications on preaching. Her edition (with Carolyn A. Muessig) of Hildegard of Bingen's Expositiones euangeliorum was published in 2007 (Brepols, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis), and her book on Hildegard as preacher and exegete, funded by a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, will be published by Brepols in 2008. Her work focuses on evidence for women's preaching in monastic and dissident communities; Bernard of Clairvaux and later Cistercian monks' preaching inside the monastery and outside against heresy; dissident Christians' demands for the authority to evangelize; and the place of preaching in the history of medieval heresy. Other books include Cistercians, Heresy, and Crusade in Occitania, 1145–1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard; Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity; The Sermon; Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University; Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for the Summer Season (translation); and De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages. A fascination with medieval saints and a concern about violence against women motivates her continuing research on violence against women in medieval hagiography.

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