Lisa Kaaren Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1447427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Kaaren Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Kaaren |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9027-3314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unfinished Christians
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity is a beautifully written book that evokes the sensory world it is describing. Georgia Frank conjures the physical world of late antique Christians, but she even more powerfully conjures the people themselves, and the full range of their emotions. Her argument is that objects bear witness to the humanity of those who made, used, and engaged with them, and she explores this…
“No one who has been joined to a spouse will see the Kingdom of Heaven”
This article explores the story of Berthegund, a Merovingian woman who tried to leave her husband to join a religious life. This story comes to us only from a hostile witness, and most scholars have echoed his dismissive perspective. However, it is possible to reconstruct Berthegund’s perspective by exploring what would have seemed possible for her. The article then sets her story into the context of several broader issues. The first is the idea …
Exploring academic identities through collage-making
Black/women of colour occupying academic positions is still a novel phenomenon in many academic institutions, in South Africa and elsewhere. We explored our academic identities as early-career black/women of colour through the novel application of collage-making as a tool in collaborative autoethnography (CAE). Through collaborative collage-making, we generated personal reflections on our experiences as academics. The content of the collages and …
Mary E. Sommar. The Slaves of the Churches
Sommar is refreshingly frank about the scope of this volume, which she identifies from the start as “fairly narrow” (2). Her work is “a comprehensive longitudinal study of canon law” (240) in its application to the unfree dependents of the Christian church between its origins and the high middle ages. In other words, she looks at the church’s attitudes to the people it owned and to others who were bound to it, as well as the ecclesiastical regula…
Handmaids of God
Merovingian hagiographies make extensive use of the metaphor of service to demonstrate the sanctity of their subjects. These religious images emerged from a society in which slaves and servants were both ubiquitous and demeaned, and the metaphors were embedded in the social realities of service. This article examines the Lives of three elite female saints who were depicted as slaves, or engaged in acts of servitude: Radegund, Balthild, and Austre…
Scripture in the sermons of Caesarius of Arles
Caesarius of Arles devoted considerable attention and effort to the exposition of scripture in his preaching. He regarded lay engagement with and comprehension of the Bible as very important, even urging his congregation to engage with the scriptures directly, armed with the technqiues of exegesis which he would provide for them. Caesarius planned that scripture would thus become the basis of Christian identity for his congregation and went furth…
Christianity's Quiet Success
Content: Preaching in late antique Gaul -- The Eusebius Gallicanus sermon collection -- Building community -- Explaining the faith -- Dealing with sin -- Sermons to monks
Monks and lay communities in late antique Gaul
The Eusebius Gallicanus sermons reveal the congruity in late antique Gaul between the models of pastoral care for monks and lay Christians. For these Gallic clergy, there was little antagonism between monastery and world. Preachers to both audiences share a common central concern with the defence of community and in this respect they differ from some of their contemporaries. The sermon collection demonstrates that the ascetic world in Gaul was fa…
Building urban Christian communities
This article uses the sermons in the anonymous collection known as the Eusebius Gallicanus to explore the ways in which preachers in fifth‐century Gaul tried to build urban Christian communities, focusing particularly on the subset of sermons which deal with local saints. In these sermons preachers adapt a tradition of Christian language and thought to the specific circumstances they faced. They seize the opportunity provided by their subject mat…
Monks and lay communities in late antique Gaul
The Eusebius Gallicanus sermons reveal the congruity in late antique Gaul between the models of pastoral care for monks and lay Christians. For these Gallic clergy, there was little antagonism between monastery and world. Preachers to both audiences share a common central concern with the defence of community and in this respect they differ from some of their contemporaries. The sermon collection demonstrates that the ascetic world in Gaul was fa…
Building urban Christian communities
This article uses the sermons in the anonymous collection known as the Eusebius Gallicanus to explore the ways in which preachers in fifth‐century Gaul tried to build urban Christian communities, focusing particularly on the subset of sermons which deal with local saints. In these sermons preachers adapt a tradition of Christian language and thought to the specific circumstances they faced. They seize the opportunity provided by their subject mat…
Monks and lay communities in late antique Gaul
The Eusebius Gallicanus sermons reveal the congruity in late antique Gaul between the models of pastoral care for monks and lay Christians. For these Gallic clergy, there was little antagonism between monastery and world. Preachers to both audiences share a common central concern with the defence of community and in this respect they differ from some of their contemporaries. The sermon collection demonstrates that the ascetic world in Gaul was fa…
Christianity's Quiet Success
Content: Preaching in late antique Gaul -- The Eusebius Gallicanus sermon collection -- Building community -- Explaining the faith -- Dealing with sin -- Sermons to monks
Scripture in the sermons of Caesarius of Arles
Caesarius of Arles devoted considerable attention and effort to the exposition of scripture in his preaching. He regarded lay engagement with and comprehension of the Bible as very important, even urging his congregation to engage with the scriptures directly, armed with the technqiues of exegesis which he would provide for them. Caesarius planned that scripture would thus become the basis of Christian identity for his congregation and went furth…
Handmaids of God
Merovingian hagiographies make extensive use of the metaphor of service to demonstrate the sanctity of their subjects. These religious images emerged from a society in which slaves and servants were both ubiquitous and demeaned, and the metaphors were embedded in the social realities of service. This article examines the Lives of three elite female saints who were depicted as slaves, or engaged in acts of servitude: Radegund, Balthild, and Austre…
“No one who has been joined to a spouse will see the Kingdom of Heaven”
This article explores the story of Berthegund, a Merovingian woman who tried to leave her husband to join a religious life. This story comes to us only from a hostile witness, and most scholars have echoed his dismissive perspective. However, it is possible to reconstruct Berthegund’s perspective by exploring what would have seemed possible for her. The article then sets her story into the context of several broader issues. The first is the idea …
Exploring academic identities through collage-making
Black/women of colour occupying academic positions is still a novel phenomenon in many academic institutions, in South Africa and elsewhere. We explored our academic identities as early-career black/women of colour through the novel application of collage-making as a tool in collaborative autoethnography (CAE). Through collaborative collage-making, we generated personal reflections on our experiences as academics. The content of the collages and …
Mary E. Sommar. The Slaves of the Churches
Sommar is refreshingly frank about the scope of this volume, which she identifies from the start as “fairly narrow” (2). Her work is “a comprehensive longitudinal study of canon law” (240) in its application to the unfree dependents of the Christian church between its origins and the high middle ages. In other words, she looks at the church’s attitudes to the people it owned and to others who were bound to it, as well as the ecclesiastical regula…
Unfinished Christians
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity is a beautifully written book that evokes the sensory world it is describing. Georgia Frank conjures the physical world of late antique Christians, but she even more powerfully conjures the people themselves, and the full range of their emotions. Her argument is that objects bear witness to the humanity of those who made, used, and engaged with them, and she explores this…
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