Preach It, Sister! A Roundtable about Women and Homiletics
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics (SSASH)
Organizer Name
Brandon W. Hawk
Organizer Affiliation
Rhode Island College
Presider Name
M. Breann Leake
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Connecticut
Paper Title 1
Homiletics: Insular Perspectives
Presenter 1 Name
Kristen Carella
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Assumption College
Paper Title 2
Women and Witchcraft in Late Anglo-Saxon Homiletics
Presenter 2 Name
Jill Hamilton Clements
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham
Paper Title 3
The Impact of the Lynne Grundy Memorial Trust: A Twenty-Year Retrospective
Presenter 3 Name
Jill Fitzgerald
Presenter 3 Affiliation
United States Naval Academy
Paper Title 4
Wundorlice Wif: Women as Universal Models in Ælfric's Homilies and Anglo-Saxon Studies
Presenter 4 Name
Rachel Elizabeth Grabowski
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Cornell Univ.
Paper Title 5
Sisters in Preaching: Transhistorical Networks in Homiletics
Presenter 5 Name
Johanna Kramer
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Paper Title 6
The Included Excluded: Women and Jews in Old English Homilies
Presenter 6 Name
Samantha Zacher
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Cornell Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2018 7:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1010
Description
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Janet Bately’s handlist titled Anonymous Old English Homilies: A Preliminary Bibliography of Source Studies (1993), which remains an invaluable resource in the field. Yet this publication is just one representative of how women have been integral to the study of Anglo-Saxon preaching. For example, we also continue to rely on foundational editions and studies by Dorothy Bethurum, Mary Clayton, Helen Foxhall Forbes, Mechthild Gretsch, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Clare Lees, Joyce Tally Lionarons, Mary Swan, Elaine Treharne, Dorothy Whitelock, and Samantha Zacher. The past decade has brought about the publications of major books by women featuring sermons, such as Zacher’s Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009); Lionarons’s The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan (2010); Treharne’s Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (2012); and Forbes’s Heaven and Earth in Anglo‑Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith (2013). The proposed roundtable will feature reflections about the work of women on Anglo-Saxon homiletics, allowing for not only showcasing past scholarship but also a forum for lively discussion of future directions. At a time when the study of gender is at the foreground in Anglo-Saxon studies, this roundtable will provide an intervention in historiography meant to celebrate the legacy of women in the field.
Brandon W. Hawk
Preach It, Sister! A Roundtable about Women and Homiletics
Fetzer 1010
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Janet Bately’s handlist titled Anonymous Old English Homilies: A Preliminary Bibliography of Source Studies (1993), which remains an invaluable resource in the field. Yet this publication is just one representative of how women have been integral to the study of Anglo-Saxon preaching. For example, we also continue to rely on foundational editions and studies by Dorothy Bethurum, Mary Clayton, Helen Foxhall Forbes, Mechthild Gretsch, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Clare Lees, Joyce Tally Lionarons, Mary Swan, Elaine Treharne, Dorothy Whitelock, and Samantha Zacher. The past decade has brought about the publications of major books by women featuring sermons, such as Zacher’s Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009); Lionarons’s The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan (2010); Treharne’s Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (2012); and Forbes’s Heaven and Earth in Anglo‑Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith (2013). The proposed roundtable will feature reflections about the work of women on Anglo-Saxon homiletics, allowing for not only showcasing past scholarship but also a forum for lively discussion of future directions. At a time when the study of gender is at the foreground in Anglo-Saxon studies, this roundtable will provide an intervention in historiography meant to celebrate the legacy of women in the field.
Brandon W. Hawk