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faculty assistant
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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