Sara Ritchey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Ritchey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchey |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Patois of the Parishes
This essay examines the birth of French medieval studies in America as a product of the racial anxiety and cultural-linguistic precarity experienced by Creoles. It argues that the idea of the French Middle Ages in North America, the conceptual matrix through which it became thinkable and desirable as a coherent subject of study, was made possible through engagements with minoritized Francophones who were assumed to embody the deep past. Part 1 ex…
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What might a journal be
Introduction
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250–1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and under…
Saints, Miracles and the Image
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Dialogue and Destabilization
This reflection derives from a discussion that took place at the 2018 “Comparative Hagiology” pre-conference workshop of the American Academy of Religion. The goal during that meeting was to articulate points of dialogue for the comparison of exemplary figures in various historic, geographic, and faith traditions. Here, I offer an open-ended descriptive index as a heuristic device for beginning a comparative study, whether collaborative or single…
N aama C ohen -H anegbi . Caring for the Living Soul
Academic interest in the historicization of emotion stretches back at least to Lucien Febvre’s early twentieth-century inquiries into village life in the Franche-Comté, and it has since undergone numerous upheavals of methodology, particularly in the last decade as historians have sought to adapt insights from the cognitive sciences. Medievalists are among the vanguard of historians tapping into the layered processes of the construction of emotio…
The sacrificial herb
Saints’ Lives as Efficacious Texts
The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s “Dialogue on Miracles” and Its Reception. Victoria Smirnova, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, and Jacques Berlioz, eds. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 196. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xviii + 296 pp. $149. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Holy Matter
Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world.
Manual thinking
Rethinking the Twelfth-Century Discovery of Nature
According to long-standing scholarly opinion, the twelfth century discovered nature. This essay argues that earthly nature was not discovered in the twelfth century. The twelfth-century authors of the philosophia mundi or the sculptors who fashioned the acanthus capitals at Rheims Cathedral in fact did not think of their work as belonging to the category of nature but to something entirely different from nature–to the order of creation. Continuin…
The Place of Nature in Twelfth-Century Spirituality
This essay considers recent scholarship on nature and spirituality in the twelfth century, the period when Europeans ostensibly 'discovered' nature. In doing so, it demonstrates the ways in which certain developments in twelfth-century Christian spirituality can participate in and enlarge the emerging conversation on the material conditions of human spirituality that is presently taking place in religious studies more generally as a result of our…
Rethinking the Twelfth-Century Discovery of Nature
According to long-standing scholarly opinion, the twelfth century discovered nature. This essay argues that earthly nature was not discovered in the twelfth century. The twelfth-century authors of the philosophia mundi or the sculptors who fashioned the acanthus capitals at Rheims Cathedral in fact did not think of their work as belonging to the category of nature but to something entirely different from nature–to the order of creation. Continuin…
Saints’ Lives as Efficacious Texts
What might a journal be
Rethinking the Twelfth-Century Discovery of Nature
According to long-standing scholarly opinion, the twelfth century discovered nature. This essay argues that earthly nature was not discovered in the twelfth century. The twelfth-century authors of the philosophia mundi or the sculptors who fashioned the acanthus capitals at Rheims Cathedral in fact did not think of their work as belonging to the category of nature but to something entirely different from nature–to the order of creation. Continuin…
The Place of Nature in Twelfth-Century Spirituality
This essay considers recent scholarship on nature and spirituality in the twelfth century, the period when Europeans ostensibly 'discovered' nature. In doing so, it demonstrates the ways in which certain developments in twelfth-century Christian spirituality can participate in and enlarge the emerging conversation on the material conditions of human spirituality that is presently taking place in religious studies more generally as a result of our…
Manual thinking
Holy Matter
Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God's incarnation on the natural, material world.
Saints’ Lives as Efficacious Texts
The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s “Dialogue on Miracles” and Its Reception. Victoria Smirnova, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, and Jacques Berlioz, eds. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 196. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xviii + 296 pp. $149. - Volume 70 Issue 2
The sacrificial herb
Dialogue and Destabilization
This reflection derives from a discussion that took place at the 2018 “Comparative Hagiology” pre-conference workshop of the American Academy of Religion. The goal during that meeting was to articulate points of dialogue for the comparison of exemplary figures in various historic, geographic, and faith traditions. Here, I offer an open-ended descriptive index as a heuristic device for beginning a comparative study, whether collaborative or single…
N aama C ohen -H anegbi . Caring for the Living Soul
Academic interest in the historicization of emotion stretches back at least to Lucien Febvre’s early twentieth-century inquiries into village life in the Franche-Comté, and it has since undergone numerous upheavals of methodology, particularly in the last decade as historians have sought to adapt insights from the cognitive sciences. Medievalists are among the vanguard of historians tapping into the layered processes of the construction of emotio…
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250–1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and under…
Saints, Miracles and the Image
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
About the Cover
What might a journal be
Introduction
Patois of the Parishes
This essay examines the birth of French medieval studies in America as a product of the racial anxiety and cultural-linguistic precarity experienced by Creoles. It argues that the idea of the French Middle Ages in North America, the conceptual matrix through which it became thinkable and desirable as a coherent subject of study, was made possible through engagements with minoritized Francophones who were assumed to embody the deep past. Part 1 ex…
Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works)