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Lynda L. Coon
Lynda L. Coon

Lynda L. Coon (Ph.D., University of Virginia) researches the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in the early medieval era, c. 600-900. Her most recent work, Dark Age Bodies, has been nominated for the Jacques Barzun Prize in cultural history, the Philip Schaff Prize in church history, the James Henry Breasted Prize for best monograph in historical fields prior to the year 1000 C.E., and the John Gilmary Shea Book Prize in the history of the Catholic Church. Coon teaches courses on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (c. 400-1000), the later Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300), women and Christianity (c. 30-1400), and the history of Christianity (c. 4 BCE-400 CE). She also offers graduate reading seminars in pre-modern gender history as well as the visual and material cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. She has won both the Fulbright College Master Teacher and the Charles and Nadine Baum University of Arkansas Teaching Award. Publications: Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West University of Pennsylvania, 2011. Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women and Christianity, co-edited with Elisabeth Sommer and Katherine Haldane (University of Virginia Press, 1990).

  • Dark Age Bodies

    October 23, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/ Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West by Lynda L. Coon…

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