Anne E Lester
Biographic Data
| ID | 1222334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne E Lester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lester |
| SIGNATURE | LESTER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shrines, Relics, and Saints
In Shrines, Relics, and Saints ,the eminent medievalist André Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity—chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places—that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an appearance by a saint, angel, or the Virgin Mary. From famous sanctuaries that still attract multitudes of pilgrims—in Jerusalem, Rome, Tours, Assisi, and C…
Taking into Account
Medieval Things
Introduction
Over the past 20 years, a renewed interest in material culture, materialism and materiality has shaped the practice of history in new ways moving the discipline ‘beyond words’ to consider the worlds within things. Attention to the dynamics of materials and production has expanded ways of knowing the past and begun to reshape the kinds of narratives that historians craft. Objects and things can be said to constitute an additional archival repertoi…
The Subject Behind the Object
This paper takes as a starting point the slippage between bodies and things as an idea and moment to interrogate an epistemology accessible through materiality. I explore the methodology of materiality, suggesting that one of the major contributions of material studies is a renewed attention to the dynamics of materialism embedded in the objects themselves: those unnamed subjects who lie behind or just beyond an object’s presence, who played a ro…
B rett W halen . The Two Powers
What was the nature of sovereign power? It is an old question, often asked and answered in reference to power struggles of the moment. How did past societies distinguish between theocratic ideas of sovereignty, the power of a sovereign ruler, and the sovereign power of the state? And who decides? These questions underlie The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, a book that takes as its fo…
Adam J. Davis, The Medieval Economy of Salvation
As the COVID-19 virus has begun to work its way through the world’s population, the interrelationships between profit and medical care, money and moral behavior have come to the fore in discussions of hospital administration and health policy. The current hyper-capitalized form of medicine in the west is not working. It has enriched those running the business of medicine, not its providers, practitioners, health care workers, and certainly not it…
How Not to Make a Human
I tasted my first oyster in college at a Manhattan dinner party, goaded on by the hostess, who told me it was like eating the sea in its totality. Rather like Alice and her tinctures, the oyster seemed, in its own self-contained container, to say, “Eat me and I'll transform you, midwesterner.” Current scholarly debates about the agency of things, the vibrancy of matter, and the trajectory of posthumanism guide Steel's exploration of medieval conc…
Possession, Production, and Power
This response piece explores the revival of interest in materiality and the relationship between medieval material culture and gender. Offering a rich and extensive overview of the study of materiality and gender, including a new definition of the “material field” drawing on Bourdieu, the piece specifically discusses how objects obtain their value and meaning within medieval texts, including Arthurian romance literature. The response argues that …
Anglo-Norman Studies XL
Catherine M. Mooney. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
Preserved in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi is the coarse brown tunic Francis of Assisi is said to have worn during the final years of his life. It is a remarkable garment, held together by many patches of varied brown hues, sewn and oversewn, to repair its many places of wear. Textile evidence shows that the patching came from a similar brown tunic worn by Clare of Assisi, friend and follower of Francis: Clare had mended Francis’s tunic…
Intimacy and Abundance
During the early thirteenth century crusaders carried or sent dozens of textile relics from the treasuries of the Levant and Byzantium to the West. As these objects were integrated into the devotional life of western Europe, they collapsed the perceptions of temporal and spatial distance between medieval Europe and the world of the Apostles. Taking as a case study Pope Innocent III’s renewed veneration of the sudarium, or Veil of Veronica, the ar…
Translation and Appropriation
Following the fall of Constantinople to French, Flemish and Venetian forces at the conclusion of the Fourth Crusade, an unprecedented number of relics and other holy objects poured into the West between 1204 and c. 1240. Sent as personal and diplomatic gifts, most holy objects moved in the open, with letters of authentication and identification, and not (as has often been suggested) as sacred theft. This article traces the work of translation, ca…
Introduction
Tanya Stabler Miller. The Beguines of Medieval Paris
Beguines, that is, lay religious women, who lived devout lives unbound by a formal religious rule, have been the focus of scholarly fascination since they first emerged on the religious scene in the early decades of the thirteenth century. By living both spiritual and secular lives, supported from alms and their own labor, praying and preaching (albeit in modified ways), beguines seemed to defy social norms. Their way of life received praise and …
What remains
After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Crusaders in 1204 hundreds of relics were carried into the West as diplomatic gifts, memorabilia and tokens of victory. Yet many relics were also sent privately between male crusaders and their spouses and female kin. As recipients of relics women were often called upon to initiate new relic cults and practices of commemoration in honour of the men who sent these objects and who often never returned f…
Memory and interpretation
This article describes the connection between studies of memory and the history of the crusades. The authors argue that integrating memory into crusades scholarship offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. The article draws on and extends recent trends in crusade scholarship that understand the crusades as a broad reli…
L'Abbaye cistercienne de Grandselve et sa place dans l'économie et la société méridionales (XIIe-XIVe siècles) . Mireille Mousnier
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
A shared imitation
This article examines the relationship between Cistercian nunneries and the crusade movement and considers the role of gender in light of the new emphasis on penitential piety and suffering prevalent during the thirteenth century. Focused on evidence from the region of Champagne in northern France, it argues that female family members of male crusaders adopted Cistercian spirituality as a means of participating in the experience of suffering and …
Klostereintritt und Bildung
Rievaulx Abbey and Its Social Context, 1132-1300
Littere baronum
La Cour Notre-Dame de Michery
In a recent article in JMH, Constance Berman suggested that the thirteenth-century history of the Cistercian nuns of La Cour Notre-Dame de Michery in France has been distorted by scholars' reliance on the fifteenth-century cartulary of the house. This compilation, she argues, was meant to portray the nunnery as a failure and to justify its transformation into a male priory. The authors of the present article attempt to show that Berman's doubts a…
What remains
After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Crusaders in 1204 hundreds of relics were carried into the West as diplomatic gifts, memorabilia and tokens of victory. Yet many relics were also sent privately between male crusaders and their spouses and female kin. As recipients of relics women were often called upon to initiate new relic cults and practices of commemoration in honour of the men who sent these objects and who often never returned f…
Translation and Appropriation
Following the fall of Constantinople to French, Flemish and Venetian forces at the conclusion of the Fourth Crusade, an unprecedented number of relics and other holy objects poured into the West between 1204 and c. 1240. Sent as personal and diplomatic gifts, most holy objects moved in the open, with letters of authentication and identification, and not (as has often been suggested) as sacred theft. This article traces the work of translation, ca…
A shared imitation
This article examines the relationship between Cistercian nunneries and the crusade movement and considers the role of gender in light of the new emphasis on penitential piety and suffering prevalent during the thirteenth century. Focused on evidence from the region of Champagne in northern France, it argues that female family members of male crusaders adopted Cistercian spirituality as a means of participating in the experience of suffering and …
La Cour Notre-Dame de Michery
In a recent article in JMH, Constance Berman suggested that the thirteenth-century history of the Cistercian nuns of La Cour Notre-Dame de Michery in France has been distorted by scholars' reliance on the fifteenth-century cartulary of the house. This compilation, she argues, was meant to portray the nunnery as a failure and to justify its transformation into a male priory. The authors of the present article attempt to show that Berman's doubts a…
Littere baronum
Rievaulx Abbey and Its Social Context, 1132-1300
Klostereintritt und Bildung
L'Abbaye cistercienne de Grandselve et sa place dans l'économie et la société méridionales (XIIe-XIVe siècles) . Mireille Mousnier
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
A shared imitation
This article examines the relationship between Cistercian nunneries and the crusade movement and considers the role of gender in light of the new emphasis on penitential piety and suffering prevalent during the thirteenth century. Focused on evidence from the region of Champagne in northern France, it argues that female family members of male crusaders adopted Cistercian spirituality as a means of participating in the experience of suffering and …
What remains
After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Crusaders in 1204 hundreds of relics were carried into the West as diplomatic gifts, memorabilia and tokens of victory. Yet many relics were also sent privately between male crusaders and their spouses and female kin. As recipients of relics women were often called upon to initiate new relic cults and practices of commemoration in honour of the men who sent these objects and who often never returned f…
Memory and interpretation
This article describes the connection between studies of memory and the history of the crusades. The authors argue that integrating memory into crusades scholarship offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. The article draws on and extends recent trends in crusade scholarship that understand the crusades as a broad reli…
Introduction
Tanya Stabler Miller. The Beguines of Medieval Paris
Beguines, that is, lay religious women, who lived devout lives unbound by a formal religious rule, have been the focus of scholarly fascination since they first emerged on the religious scene in the early decades of the thirteenth century. By living both spiritual and secular lives, supported from alms and their own labor, praying and preaching (albeit in modified ways), beguines seemed to defy social norms. Their way of life received praise and …
Translation and Appropriation
Following the fall of Constantinople to French, Flemish and Venetian forces at the conclusion of the Fourth Crusade, an unprecedented number of relics and other holy objects poured into the West between 1204 and c. 1240. Sent as personal and diplomatic gifts, most holy objects moved in the open, with letters of authentication and identification, and not (as has often been suggested) as sacred theft. This article traces the work of translation, ca…
Anglo-Norman Studies XL
Catherine M. Mooney. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
Preserved in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi is the coarse brown tunic Francis of Assisi is said to have worn during the final years of his life. It is a remarkable garment, held together by many patches of varied brown hues, sewn and oversewn, to repair its many places of wear. Textile evidence shows that the patching came from a similar brown tunic worn by Clare of Assisi, friend and follower of Francis: Clare had mended Francis’s tunic…
Intimacy and Abundance
During the early thirteenth century crusaders carried or sent dozens of textile relics from the treasuries of the Levant and Byzantium to the West. As these objects were integrated into the devotional life of western Europe, they collapsed the perceptions of temporal and spatial distance between medieval Europe and the world of the Apostles. Taking as a case study Pope Innocent III’s renewed veneration of the sudarium, or Veil of Veronica, the ar…
Possession, Production, and Power
This response piece explores the revival of interest in materiality and the relationship between medieval material culture and gender. Offering a rich and extensive overview of the study of materiality and gender, including a new definition of the “material field” drawing on Bourdieu, the piece specifically discusses how objects obtain their value and meaning within medieval texts, including Arthurian romance literature. The response argues that …
B rett W halen . The Two Powers
What was the nature of sovereign power? It is an old question, often asked and answered in reference to power struggles of the moment. How did past societies distinguish between theocratic ideas of sovereignty, the power of a sovereign ruler, and the sovereign power of the state? And who decides? These questions underlie The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, a book that takes as its fo…
Adam J. Davis, The Medieval Economy of Salvation
As the COVID-19 virus has begun to work its way through the world’s population, the interrelationships between profit and medical care, money and moral behavior have come to the fore in discussions of hospital administration and health policy. The current hyper-capitalized form of medicine in the west is not working. It has enriched those running the business of medicine, not its providers, practitioners, health care workers, and certainly not it…
How Not to Make a Human
I tasted my first oyster in college at a Manhattan dinner party, goaded on by the hostess, who told me it was like eating the sea in its totality. Rather like Alice and her tinctures, the oyster seemed, in its own self-contained container, to say, “Eat me and I'll transform you, midwesterner.” Current scholarly debates about the agency of things, the vibrancy of matter, and the trajectory of posthumanism guide Steel's exploration of medieval conc…
Introduction
Over the past 20 years, a renewed interest in material culture, materialism and materiality has shaped the practice of history in new ways moving the discipline ‘beyond words’ to consider the worlds within things. Attention to the dynamics of materials and production has expanded ways of knowing the past and begun to reshape the kinds of narratives that historians craft. Objects and things can be said to constitute an additional archival repertoi…
The Subject Behind the Object
This paper takes as a starting point the slippage between bodies and things as an idea and moment to interrogate an epistemology accessible through materiality. I explore the methodology of materiality, suggesting that one of the major contributions of material studies is a renewed attention to the dynamics of materialism embedded in the objects themselves: those unnamed subjects who lie behind or just beyond an object’s presence, who played a ro…
Shrines, Relics, and Saints
In Shrines, Relics, and Saints ,the eminent medievalist André Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity—chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places—that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an appearance by a saint, angel, or the Virgin Mary. From famous sanctuaries that still attract multitudes of pilgrims—in Jerusalem, Rome, Tours, Assisi, and C…
Taking into Account
Medieval Things
History (16 works) · Medieval Literature and History (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (9 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Classics (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Literature (6 works)