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09/04/2009
Lecture Series
Date: Tuesday, October 13
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Main Building, Room 103
RSVP: Please email lectures@aquinascollege.edu or call (615) 383-3230 to reserve a seat.
Lay Devotions, Literacy, and Our Lady: English Prayer Books and Lyric Cycles of the 14th to 16th Centuries
Katherine Haynes, Ph.D.
Aquinas College
Devotion to Mary as the Mother of God, model Christian, and Queen of Heaven during the late middle ages resulted in a flowering of cultural activities that transformed medieval Europe. Recent scholarship from several disciplines recognizes the importance of Marian devotion and increased prayer book ownership among the laity for the development of literacy and vernacular poetry in late medieval England. This lecture will focus on Mary's role as mediatrix of a complex cultural development that gave rise to the emergence of English as a worthy vehicle of high art and culture.
Dr. Katherine V. Haynes has been a full-time faculty member at Aquinas College since 2006 where she has teaches Freshman Composition, English Literature, Early Modern English literature, Dante, and Shakespeare. She holds a Ph.D. from Middle Tennessee State University (2007), where she specialized in three great periods of English literature (Old and Middle English, Renaissance including Milton, and Eighteenth-Century) and wrote her dissertation on the seventeenth-century religious poet, George Herbert. Additionally, she holds a Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) from Emory University (1990) with an honor's thesis on the twelfth-century William of Saint Thierry's Golden Epistle, and a B.A. in English from Mercer University in Atlanta (1980).
A popular lecturer and a contributor to the Tennessee Register's "Faith Sharing" series, Dr. Haynes is a parishioner at St. Rose of Lima, where she serves as lector and teaches adult studies classes on church history. She and her husband, Bill, reside in Murfreesboro.
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