Dallas G. Denery II
Associate Professor of History
Spring 2008
- Science, Magic, and Religion
(HIST 204)
syllabus
- The History of History
(HIST 208)
syllabus
- Honors Seminar in History (HIST 452)
| Phone | (207) 725-3671 |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | HISTORY |
| Work Location | 13 Hubbard Hall |
| ddenery@bowdoin.edu |
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History, 1999.
M.A., Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Philosophy, 1995.
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, 1986.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Medieval and Early Modern intellectual and religious history.
Selected Publications:
Seeing and Being Seen in the Late Medieval World: Optics, Theology and the Religious Life, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
"Christine de Pizan Against the Theologians: The Virtue of Lies in The Book of Three Virtues." Viator (forthcoming).
“The Preacher and His Audience: Dominican Conceptions of the Self in the Thirteenth Century.” In Laurie Postlewaite and Wim Huskens, eds., Public Performance/Public Ritual (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007).
"Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians." In Richard Newhauser, ed., The Seven Deadly Sins: From Individuals to Communities (Leiden: Brill, 2007): 111-28.
“Nicholas of Autrecourt on Saving the Appearances.” In Stephan Caroti and Christophe Grellard, eds., Nicolas d'Autrécourt et la Faculté des arts de Paris (1317-1340) (Cesena: Stilgraf, 2006): 65-84.
"From Sacred Mystery to Divine Deception: Robert Holkot, John Wyclif and the Transformation of Fourteenth-Century Eucharistic Discourse," Journal of Religious History, June 2005.
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"The Appearance of Reality: Peter Aureol and the Experience of Perceptual Error." Franciscan Studies, 55 (1998).
Reviews:
Elizabeth Eva Leach. Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006). In The American Historical Review, 112.5 (December 2007): 1596-97.
Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner, ed. and trans., Dominican Penitent Women. New York: Paulist Press, 2005. In Speculum, 81.3 (July 2006): 877-78.
Christophe Grellard, Croire et Savoir: Les principes de la connaissance selon Nicolas d'Autrécourt. (Paris: J. Vrin, 2005). In Journal of the History of Philosophy 44.1 (January 2006): 119-20.
Selected Conference Presentations:
Organizer, Medieval Relativism and its Legacy: An international conference sponsored by Bowdoin College and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris, June 5-7, 2008
"Preaching the Perils of Perspective"
Art and Morality in the Italian Renaissance
The National Gallery, London, November 2007.
“The Virtuous Lie: Christine de Pizan Against the Theologians”
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, March 2007.
“Vision and Relativism in the Fourteenth Century”
Medieval Association of the Pacific
University of California, Los Angeles, California, March 2007
"The Moral Eye and the Natural Appearances: Some Religious Contexts For Nicholas of Autrecourt's Philosophy of Vision."
Colloque: Nicholas d'Autrécourt et la faculté des arts de Paris.
Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, May 2005.
"Liars, Hypocrites and Priests."
International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo,
Western Michigan University, Michigan, May 2005.
"Vision, Image and Perspective During the Later Middle Ages."
Meeting of the College Art Association of America
Atlanta, Georgia, March 2005.
"Between Idolatry and Truth: Divine Deception, Real Presence and the Desire to See the Host during the Fourteenth Century." Meeting of the American Historical Association (presenter and panel organizer) San Francisco, CA, January 2002.
"Self as Self-Presentation in Early Dominican Religious Life." Barnard College Medieval and Renaissance Conference Barnard College, New York City, NY, December 2000.
"Peter of Limoges, Perspectivist Optics and the Displacement of Vision." University of California Medieval History Seminar Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, November 1999.
"Probability and Perspective: Peter Aureol and Nicolas of Autrecourt on the Importance of Appearances." Medieval Academy of America, annual meeting Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 1998.
Honors and Awards:
Fletcher Family Research Fund, Bowdoin College, 2007
Course Development Award, Bowdoin College, 2007
Kenan Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 2005-2006
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Seminar, 2004
Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2000-2001
Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, U.C Berkeley, 1997-98
Koret Chair Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1994, 1996-97
Summer Mellon Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1995