Join the Medieval Institute for a faculty-student dialogue between associate professor and MI Faculty Fellow Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis and Medieval Institute Ph.D. candidate Kristina Kummerer. They will speak on the theme of "Calculating Medieval Religious Women."
The talks will be followed by a reception.
About the Talks
Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis will speak on "The Superior Choice: Elections in Women’s Monastic Communities in Late Medieval England." She is the Rev. John A. O'Brien Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies and the Director of Postdoctoral Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Buyis is the author of The Care of Nuns: Benedictine Women’s Ministries in England during the Central Middle Ages, and the co-editor of Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages and Medieval Cantors and Their Craft: Music, Liturgy, and the Shaping of History. She is currently working on her second monograph, Pastoring Nuns: Sibyl Felton, Barking Abbey, and Leading Liturgy in Late Medieval England, and developing a website on teaching and researching the medieval liturgy in collaboration with Margot Fassler.
Kristina Kummerer will speak on "Counting the Dead: Convent Commemoration and Identity Construction in Medieval Alsace." She is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her research centers on the history of medieval religious women, particularly the use of liturgical manuscripts for historical inquiry. Kristina is a recent recipient of the Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarly Outreach and the Medieval Academy of America Summer Research Fellowship. Her Ph.D. dissertation, from which today's talk derives, examines manuscripts for the commemoration of the dead used by a community of medieval Dominican nuns at the convent Unterlinden in Colmar, France. This work aims to re-consider the opportunities for identity construction and agency available to religious women in the Middle Ages and empower researchers of other women's communities to do the same.
Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.