Dallas G. Denery II
Associate Professor of History
Fall 2009
- Monsters, Marvels, and Messiahs: Europe during the Age of Discovery (HIST 010)
- Early Modern Europe (HIST 206)
- Advanced Independent Study in History (HIST 401)
- Honors Seminar in History (HIST 451)
| Phone | (207) 725-3671 |
| Title | Associate 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 Religious Life. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback 2009).
"Christine de Pizan on Misogyny, Gossip and Possibility." In Jason Glenn, ed., The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture (New York City: Columbia University), forthcoming.
"Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention of Epistemological Relativism." In Lisa Bitel, ed., Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Techniques in Religious and Cultural Contexts, a special issue of Visual Resources XXV, nos. 1-2, March/June 2009: 29-51.
"Christine de Pizan Against the Theologians: The Virtue of Lies in The Book of Three Virtues." Viator 39:1 (2008): 229-47.
“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):17-34.
"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 2005:129-44.
Article in PDF
»
"The Appearance of Reality: Peter Aureol and the Experience of Perceptual Error." Franciscan Studies, 55 (1998).
Reviews:
Sarah Stanbury. The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), On H-Albion (December, 2008).
Roberta J.M. Olson, ed. The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006). In Sixteenth-Century Journal XXXIX (Winter 2008): 1124-25.
Lina Bolzoni, The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004). In Speculum 83:3 (2008): 666.
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, Faith, Reason and Evolution: A Public Colloquium.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 23, November 7 and 14, 2008.
“From Adam and Eve to Extra-Terrestrial Reptilian Astronauts: Making Sense of Genesis.”
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, October 9, 2008.
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
Professional Activities
Editorial Board for Disputatio, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout. Belgium.