Dallas G. Denery
Associate Professor of History
Spring 2012
- Science, Magic, and Religion (HIST 204)
- The History of History (HIST 208)
- Honors Seminar in History (HIST 452)
| Phone | 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 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 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.
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"The Appearance of Reality: Peter Aureol and the Experience of Perceptual Error." Franciscan Studies, 55 (1998).
Reviews
Stuart Clark. Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). In Journal of the History of Philosophy, 48:1 (January 2010): 103-04.
Samuel Y. Edgerton. The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009). On H-German (October 2009).
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.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Flatterers, Wheedlers and Gossip-Mongers: The Importance of Lying in Pre-Modern Europe”
Kennedy Center European Studies Lecture
Brigham Young University, Utah, September 2011
Audio Link: Bowdoin’s Dallas Denery on the History of Lying (WBYU) 
Organizer/Presenter, Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Cambridge University, April 2011.
“Uncertainty and Deception in the Medieval and Early Modern Court.”
Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Cambridge University, April 2011.
"What the Devil Doesn't Know"
Meeting of the College Art Association
New York City, New York, February 11, 2011
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.
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.
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