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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 work focuses on evidence for women's preaching in monastic, lay, and dissident communities; dissident Christians' demands for
the authority to evangelize; and the place of preaching and sermons in the history of medieval heresy. A concern about violence
against women motivates her continuing research on battering in historical narratives. A 2008-09 faculty grant from the Center for
the Study of World Religions funded the expansion of this work in collaboration with Nancy Nienhuis (ThD '02), Andover Newton Theological School.
Kienzle's publications include an edition (with Carolyn A. Muessig) of Hildegard of Bingen's Expositiones euangeliorum; Hildegard of Bingen and
Her Gospel Homilies: Speaking New Mysteries, funded by a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Cistercians,
Heresy, and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229; Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity; The Sermon;
Medieval Sermons and Society; 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.
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On leave fall term 2009.
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