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Teaching Team

Beverly Mayne Kienzle

John H. Morison Professor Emerita of the Practice in Latin and Romance Language Studies Harvard Divinity School Ph.D. Boston College

A past president of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, Beverly Mayne Kienzle is a scholar of medieval homiletics, sermon literature, and manuscript studies, and the translator of works by Hildegard of Bingen and Bernard of Clairvaux. Among her publications are Cistercians, Heresy, and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229 (York Medieval Press, 2001), Hildegard of Bingen and Her Gospel Homilies (Brepols, 2009), and (with Carolyn Muessig and George Ferzoco) A Companion to Catherine of Siena (Brill, 2011).

Eric Nemarich

Eric Nemarich is a graduate student in the Department of History at Harvard. His research considers how and why communities employ documents to manage, exchange, and represent social knowledge, with an emphasis on France and the Low Countries in the later medieval period. A related project explores the cultural significance of notated polyphony in thirteenth-century Paris.