Anna Harrison

Loyola Marymount University, Theological Studies, Faculty Member

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Anna Harrison

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Yale University

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University of Melbourne

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Northwestern University

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University of Tennessee Knoxville

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BYNUM, GENDER, AND THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN MIDDLE AGES

Symposium on Caroline Walker Bynum--Common Knowledge, 2024

Caroline Walker Bynum's work on gender in medieval Western European Christianity overturned bedro... more

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Holy Power, Holy Presence: Rediscovering Medieval Metaphors for the Holy Spirit (review)

The Catholic Historical Review, 2008

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What Remains of the Night The Unbearable Burden of Grief

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A New and Special Joy: Increasing the Happiness of Mary and the Saints at the Monastery of Helfta

Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spiritual History, 2021

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Conscience and Confidence

Commonweal , 2022

A review of Rebel Hearts, produced by Shawnee Isaac Smith, co-written by Shawnee Isaac Smith and ... more

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Mass in the Time of Quarantine

Spiritus, 2020

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Nuns of Helfta.pdf

"Nuns of Helfta," Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism, 2013

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Where Have You Vanished

Quidditas, 2018

In his lamentation on the death of his friend, Simon, Aelred responds to a centuries-long suspici... more In his lamentation on the death of his friend, Simon, Aelred responds to a centuries-long suspicion about grief by mounting an apology for mourning that is in keeping with a larger Cistercian trend. Aelred’s chief preoccupation in the lamentation is, however, to emphasize the productivity of grief, both for the living and for the dead. Aelred associates the desire to reunite with the beloved dead with stimulating the mourner’s desire for heaven as location for the longed-for reunion, and he conceives of the pain associated with bereavement as payment for the sins of the deceased.

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