This dissertation explores the spiritual life of the Ursulines nuns of Quebec City as the central feature of their lives. While other historians have illuminated the political power, economic influence, and social role of the nuns, this study places the nuns’ stated goals of ded…
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This dissertation examines the reception of an early Christian text – the Acts of Thecla – in sixth-century Syriac Christianity by offering an analysis of the sixth-century Syriac manuscript BL Add. 14,652 as a series of roughly sequential textual acts. These textual acts includ…
Contemporary European integration has given rise to an ongoing process of redefinition of cultural and political identity. Part of this is a resurgence of interest in the Christian roots of European civilization and a focus on what is represented as the "threat" of the illegal m…
