Public/Conference Presentations

  • “The Real Joan of Arc,” Invited presentation, Colby Alumni Club, Boston, February 2011.
  • “Joan of Arc, Neither Prophet Nor Puppet,” American Historical Assn, Boston, January 2011.
  • “Joan of Arc, The Virgin Warrior,” invited presentation, University of Siena, IT, April, 2010.
  • “Joan of Arc, The Church and the Papacy,” Renaissance Society of America, Venice, IT, April 2010.
  • “Joan of Arc’s Trial and the Dominicans of Saint-Jacques,” American Catholic Historical Association, Princeton, March 2010.
  • “Trick or Treat: Joan of Arc and Yolande of Aragon,” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 2009.
  • Panelist and Presider, “The Afterlife of Joan of Arc,” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
  • Catholic Piety and Popular Religion: NEH Summer Seminar on ‘Teaching the Reformation in a Pluralist Age’ Grand Rapids, MI (2007).
  • ‘That Astonishing and Marvelous Maid’: Pius II’s Commentary on Joan of Arc, Renaissance Society of America, Miami, March 2007 .
  • Who was Joan of Arc? Invited presentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, January 2007.
  • Exile as Pilgrimage: The Beginnings of ‘Modern’ Conceptions of Pilgrimage in Dante and Petrarch, Society for Italian Historical Studies, Atlanta, January 2007.
  • Jesus, Gender and Politics: The Execution of Joan of Arc, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2006.
  • Joan of Arc and the Dominicans of Rouen, Maine Medievalists Association, Bates College, September 2006 .
  • Joan of Arc’s Trial Performance: A Reappraisal, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2006.
  • The Village Voice: Remembrances and Testimony at the Nullification Trial of Joan of Arc, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005.
  • Who Killed Joan of Arc? Western Society for French History, Lubbock, TX,September, 2004.
  • Teaching Joan of Arc: A Historical Perspective, Panel discussion, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2004.
  • Ascending Mount Ventoux: Pilgrimage in Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Perspective, Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, 2003.
  • Le vent de l’Esprit,Modern Language Association, New York City, December,2002.
  • Early Islam: Convergences with Christianity and Judaism, Colby Alumni College, Waterville, Maine, July, 2002.
  • Holy War: Catholic Preaching in France During the Religious Wars,Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, March,2000.
  • Women, Hermaphrodites, Catholics and Libertines: Imagery in the Treatises of Pierre Viret at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October, 1998.
  • Images of Purgatory and Hell in Late Medieval French Sermons, French Historical Studies Conference, Ottawa, March, 1998.
  • Sister, Whore, Apostle, Preacher: Images of Mary Magdalene in the Sermons and Art of the Late Middle Ages and Reformation, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, January, 1998.
  • Astrology in Sixteenth-Century France: A Reappraisal of Denis Crouzet’s Guerriers de Dieu:, Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, November, 1997.
  • The Funeral Sermon as Religious Propaganda in Sixteenth-Century France,Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October, 1997.
  • Prostituierte, Predigerin und Apostel: Maria Magdalena in den Predigten und der Kunst des sp‰ten Mittelalters und der Reformation [Prostitute,Preacher and Apostle: Mary Magdalene in the Sermons and Art of the Late Middle Ages and Reformation], Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, Germany, June, 1997.
  • Images of Mary Magdalene in the Art and Religion of the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, April, 1997.
  • The Good Shepherd: Francois LePicart and Preaching Reform from Within,Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, October, 1996.
  • The Philosophy of Preaching in Late Medieval French Sermons, Tenth International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium, Oxford, England, July, 1996.
  • The Prostitute Imagined in Pre-Modern France, French Historical Studies Conference, Boston, March, 1996.
  • Using Theodore Rabb’s Teleseries The Renaissance in the Classroom: The Dissenter, Southern Historical Association, November, 1995.
  • Prophecy and Prediction at the Court of Catherine de Medici, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, October, 1995.
  • The Woman Mary Magdalene: The Pulpit Tradition in the Late Middle Ages, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, May, 1995.
  • Commentator, Plenary Session: Women, History and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Session in Memory of Nancy Lyman Roelker, New England Historical Association, South Hadley, MA, April, 1995.
  • The Three Faces of Magdalene: Changing Images in the Renaissance,St. Louis University, St. Louis, October, 1994.
  • Comme un chien mort: Preaching About Kingship in France, 1460-1572, Western Society for French History, Des Moines, October, 1994.
  • Gender and Language in the Preaching of Guillaume Pepin, Canadian Historical Association, Calgary, June, 1994.
  • The Real Mary Magdalene: Images of Sainthood, Prostitution and Sexuality from the Pulpit, 15th-16th Centuries, Second Annual Conference on the Family, Ottawa, May, 1994.
  • Sister, Whore, Apostle and Preacher, Seminar on British and European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, May, 1994.
  • Strange Bedfellows: Preachers and Prostitutes in Medieval Europe, Western Society for French History, Missoula, October, 1993.
  • The Saintly Sinner: Images of Mary Magdalene in Late Medieval Preaching,Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, April, 1993.
  • The Influence of Humanism on Post-Reformation Catholic Preachers, French Historical Studies Conference, Chico, CA, March, 1993.
  • Use of the Bible in Late Medieval Sermons, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October, 1992.
  • Defender of the Faith: The Preaching of FranÁois LePicart Against Heresy in Paris, French Historical Studies Conference, El Paso, March, 1992.