Katherine L. Jansen: "The Veil of Veronica in Premodern Rome"
Schedule
Mon Oct 14 2024 at 03:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2230 Sutherland Ave, Cherokee Mills Ste. 223, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37919 | Knoxville, TN
This event will be offered in hybrid format, taking place in-person at the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts with a Zoom livestream option (register for the link at tiny.utk.edu/Jansen).
About the Speaker:
Katherine L. Jansen is a historian of the later Middle Ages. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) and Peace and Penance in late Medieval Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). She has also published three co-edited volumes: Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, 1200–1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010); and Center and Periphery: Essays on Power in the Middle Ages in Honor of William Chester Jordan (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Professor Jansen has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, Villa I Tatti (The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, among others. She has taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC since 1995 and has been Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. She was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2020. She is currently Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Her current book project is entitled, The Relics of Rome to which this lecture, “The Veil of Veronica in Premodern Rome” contributes.
Jansen was invited to campus by Gina Di Salvo (Theatre; Marco Institute). Her visit is co-sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.
Where is it happening?
2230 Sutherland Ave, Cherokee Mills Ste. 223, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37919Event Location & Nearby Stays: