Ann W Astell

Biographic Data

ID5080678
NAMEAnn W Astell
GIVEN NAMESAnn W
FAMILY NAMEAstell
SIGNATUREASTELL A W
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Biography as Spirituality

    Ann W AstellARTICLESpiritus2026

    A member of the founding generation for Christian spirituality studies as an academic discipline, Wendy M. Wright is remembered as an inspiring figure whose life, scholarship, teaching, and academic service were inseparably united with the historical genesis and early development of that interdisciplinary field. Her contextual study of the Salesian tradition, in particular, provided her with a firm foundation for original reflections on popular d…

  • The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages

    Open AccessAnn W AstellARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2016

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  • Heroic Virtue in Blessed Raymond of Capua’s Life of Catherine of Siena

    Ann W AstellARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2012Cited by: 1

    Composed at a point of significant transition in the history of hagiography as a genre, due to changes in the canonization process, Raymond of Capua’s Life of Catherine of Siena (1395) endeavors to attest to her heroic virtue by using both traditional discourse and the new scholastic discourse. Raymond’s fidelity to Catherine’s own doctrine of the virtues puts his argument in tension with that of Saint Thomas Aquinas

  • Women of God and Arms

    Ann W AstellARTICLESpeculum2007

  • Alliterative Revivals . Christine Chism

    Ann W AstellARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Saintly Mimesis, Contagion, and Empathy in the Thought of Rene Girard, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil

    Ann W AstellARTICLEShofar2004Cited by: 4References: 1

    Empathy" and "contagion" are semantically related in their common reference to the suffering of infectious disease, spiritual and physical. How exactly do they differ as inter-personal phenomena? René Girard establishes a link between mimetic behavior and the contagious transference of emotion that spreads through groups of people, resulting in victimage. Jewish philosophers Edith Stein and Simone Weil distinguish such an emotional transference f…

  • Chaucer and the Energy of Creation

    Ann W AstellARTICLESpeculum2000

  • Chaucer's "Literature Group" and the Medieval Causes of Books

    Ann W AstellARTICLEELH1992

    Modern readers often confront medieval text as if it were Chinese encyclopedia that exhibits, as Michel Foucault puts it, exotic charm of another system of thought, even as it exposes limitation of our own.' The sequence and arrangement of things seem strange to us because we have lost the categorical grid that names the hidden relationships prescribing their order. VII of The Canterbury Tales, for instance-a story that links together the tales o…

  • The Translatio of Chaucer's Pardoner

    Ann W AstellARTICLEExemplaria1992

  • The Translatio of Chaucer's Pardoner

    Ann W AstellARTICLEExemplaria1992

  • Holofernes's head

    Open AccessAnn W AstellARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England1989References: 9

    Ælfric's On the Old and New Testament includes a brief synopsis of the story of Judith, the Hebrew widow who decapitated the Assyrian general, Holofernes. In it, Ælfric refers his friend Sigeweard to an English version of the Liber Judith which has been written ‘eow mannum to bysne, þæt ge eowerne eard mid wæmnum bewerian wiþ onwinnendne here’. Ælfric thus defines the tropology or moral lesson of the Judith story as a timely call to men such as S…

  • Anne Elliott's Education

    Ann W AstellARTICLERenascence1987

  • Oblation

    Open AccessAnn W AstellARTICLETheology Today1984

  • Good Friday and Easter

    Open AccessAnn W AstellARTICLETheology Today1983