Barbara Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vrouwen lop: Of “Hermaphrodites,” Alchemists, and Pregnant Ladies
This article is a study of the Minneleich by the Middle High German poet Frauenlob (d. 1318) that includes a complete literary translation of the long poem (the first English translation ever). The Minneleich is a dense, highly crafted philosophical text touching on sexual physiology, childbirth, and the conventional and not-so-conventional praise of women. I focus on the character Selvon’s vision of a “hermaphrodite,” which occupies a unique pla…
Poetry
Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Robert E. Lerner
Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives
The young and the restless: Socializing trumps sleep, fear of missing out, and technological distractions in first-year college students
College students are a sleep-deprived population, with first-year students facing a number of specific challenges to sleep. As students transition into and through the first year of college, sleep may be sacrificed for a variety of reasons. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fifteen first-year students, exploring factors that impacted sleep during the first semester of college. Study participants identified three unique but related th…
Of burnable books and buried giants: Two modes of historical fiction
Annihilation and Authorship: Three Women Mystics of the 1290s
Previous articleNext article FreeAnnihilation and Authorship: Three Women Mystics of the 1290sBarbara NewmanBarbara Newman Search for more articles by this author Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religious Studies, and Classics at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Section…
"Backlash against the "Big Box: Local Small Business and Public Opinion toward Business Corporations
Journal Article Backlash against the "Big Box": Local Small Business and Public Opinion toward Business Corporations Get access Benjamin J. Newman, Benjamin J. Newman * B enjamin J. N ewman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. J ohn V. K ane is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. *Address correspond…
The Burdens of Church History in the Middle Ages
We live in apocalyptic times. But, for a chilling sense that the end is at hand, one cannot beat the Middle Ages. So when I reflect on "the burdens of church history" as a medievalist, I find it bracing to ponder some ways that the era's most thoughtful prophetic writers brooded on church history. They were at least as concerned as we about complicity in an institution they saw as compromised at best, and at worst, in the service of Antichrist. S…
The Passion of the Jews of Prague: The Pogrom of 1389 and the Lessons of a Medieval Parody
Outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence in late medieval cities were hardly rare. For that reason, among others, surviving records are often frustratingly brief and formulaic. Yet, in the case of the pogrom that devastated Prague's Jewish community on Easter 1389, we have an extraordinary source that has yet to receive a close reading. This account, supplementing numerous chronicle entries and a Hebrew poem of lament, is thePassio Iudeorum Pragensium, …
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents . James Simpson
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. By Caroline Walker Bynum
Journal Article Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. By Caroline Walker Bynum Get access Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. By Caroline Walker Bynum. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 402 pages. $49.95 Barbara Newman Barbara Newman Northwestern University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 . Paula M. Rieder
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Dolphins in Popular Literature and Media
This review of how dolphins are portrayed in popular media (including literature, film, television, and music) reveals four themes that may influence public acceptance of current scientific research into dolphin cognition. These themes are: (a) dolphin as peer to humans, of equal intelligence or at least capable of communicating with or helping humans; (b) the dolphin as the representation of a romantic notion of ideal freedom in nature, embodyin…
What Did It Mean to Say "I Saw"? The Clash between Theory and Practice in Medieval Visionary Culture
The Heretic Saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate
High above Lake Como in Lombardy, overlooking the cathedral city of Como and the southwestern branch of the lake, looms the tiny village of Brunate. It is a picturesque spot, beloved of mountain climbers, which enjoyed a brief heyday as a tourist mecca in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An efficient if ear-popping funicular railway, inaugurated in 1894, now scales the steep cliff in a brisk seven minutes. But in the Middle Ages…
Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah . Peter Schäfer
Commentary on the Johannine Prologue: Hildegard of Bingen
This article is a translation of Hildegard's commentary on the Johannine prologue, taken from her Book of Divine Works, with an introduction emphasizing the themes of the divine image and the holiness of the human body as an analogue of both the cosmos and the creative power of God. The note introducing the translation comments on Hildegard's prophetic, pictorial style and explains why her highly gendered thought cannot be rendered in contemporar…
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. Walter Simons
My Secret Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages
Erotic, sexual and marital images belong to the fundamental stock of human symbols for commitment and union as well as for the endangering of such a union. Their inexhaustible potential has shaped religious and cultural history, giving rise to rich artistic creations during the Christian Middle Ages. Such pictorial and textual sources - here drawn mainly from German secular and religious literature between the 12th and the 17th centuries - form a…
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . Bruce W. Holsinger
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. Dyan Elliott
Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
What Did It Mean to Say "I Saw"? The Clash between Theory and Practice in Medieval Visionary Culture
Possessed by the Spirit: Devout Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century
Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation
Some years ago, wrote the Flemish monk Guibert to his friend Radulfus, strange and incredible rumors reached his ears at the Benedictine monastery of Gembloux. They concerned an old woman, abbess of the Benedictine foundation at Bingen-am-Rhein, who had gained such fame that multitudes flocked to her convent, from curiosity or devotion, to seek her prophecies and prayers. All who returned thence astonished their hearers, but none could give a pla…
"Backlash against the "Big Box: Local Small Business and Public Opinion toward Business Corporations
Journal Article Backlash against the "Big Box": Local Small Business and Public Opinion toward Business Corporations Get access Benjamin J. Newman, Benjamin J. Newman * B enjamin J. N ewman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. J ohn V. K ane is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. *Address correspond…
Annihilation and Authorship: Three Women Mystics of the 1290s
Previous articleNext article FreeAnnihilation and Authorship: Three Women Mystics of the 1290sBarbara NewmanBarbara Newman Search for more articles by this author Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religious Studies, and Classics at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Section…
Dance Critics Association Conference
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Some Birth Customs in East Anglia
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Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation
Some years ago, wrote the Flemish monk Guibert to his friend Radulfus, strange and incredible rumors reached his ears at the Benedictine monastery of Gembloux. They concerned an old woman, abbess of the Benedictine foundation at Bingen-am-Rhein, who had gained such fame that multitudes flocked to her convent, from curiosity or devotion, to seek her prophecies and prayers. All who returned thence astonished their hearers, but none could give a pla…
Non fabula sed res: Politische Dichtung und dramatische Gestalt in den "Carmina" Ruperts von Deutz . Maria Lodovica Arduini
The Women of Helfta: Scholars and Mystics. Mary Jeremy Finnegan
Wisdom's Daughter: The Theology of Julian of Norwich . Joan M. Nuth
Local authorities and the welsh language
Vita Sanctae Hildegardis. Monica Klaes
Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism. Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete. Bernard McGinn
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
Possessed by the Spirit: Devout Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century
La Sibylle du Rhin: Hildegarde de Bingen, abbesse et prophétesse rhénane. Sylvain Gouguenheim
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia. Jo Ann Kay McNamara
Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. Dyan Elliott
My Secret Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages
Erotic, sexual and marital images belong to the fundamental stock of human symbols for commitment and union as well as for the endangering of such a union. Their inexhaustible potential has shaped religious and cultural history, giving rise to rich artistic creations during the Christian Middle Ages. Such pictorial and textual sources - here drawn mainly from German secular and religious literature between the 12th and the 17th centuries - form a…
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . Bruce W. Holsinger
Commentary on the Johannine Prologue: Hildegard of Bingen
This article is a translation of Hildegard's commentary on the Johannine prologue, taken from her Book of Divine Works, with an introduction emphasizing the themes of the divine image and the holiness of the human body as an analogue of both the cosmos and the creative power of God. The note introducing the translation comments on Hildegard's prophetic, pictorial style and explains why her highly gendered thought cannot be rendered in contemporar…
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. Walter Simons
Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah . Peter Schäfer
What Did It Mean to Say "I Saw"? The Clash between Theory and Practice in Medieval Visionary Culture
The Heretic Saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate
High above Lake Como in Lombardy, overlooking the cathedral city of Como and the southwestern branch of the lake, looms the tiny village of Brunate. It is a picturesque spot, beloved of mountain climbers, which enjoyed a brief heyday as a tourist mecca in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An efficient if ear-popping funicular railway, inaugurated in 1894, now scales the steep cliff in a brisk seven minutes. But in the Middle Ages…
Dolphins in Popular Literature and Media
This review of how dolphins are portrayed in popular media (including literature, film, television, and music) reveals four themes that may influence public acceptance of current scientific research into dolphin cognition. These themes are: (a) dolphin as peer to humans, of equal intelligence or at least capable of communicating with or helping humans; (b) the dolphin as the representation of a romantic notion of ideal freedom in nature, embodyin…
On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 . Paula M. Rieder
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