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 Anne ThayerProfessor of Church History
Degrees/Education
B.A., Wellesley College, 1979 M.A., Episcopal Divinity School, 1989 A.M., Harvard University, 1991 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996  Anne is particularly interested in late medieval Christianity, the history of the laity and the popular communication of religious ideas. She is active in a variety of professional organizations including the American Academy of Religion, American Society of Church History, the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, and the Mercersberg Society. She resides in Lancaster with her husband John and daughters Elizabeth and Carolyn. 
History of
Christianity
Mercersburg TheologyHistory of the Laity History of Preaching Lives of Faith 
Popular Transmission of Religious Ideas
Late Medieval and Reformation Preaching History of the Laity Early Print Culture History of Pastoral Care 
Handbook for Curates: A Late Medieval Manual
on Pastoral Ministry. A translation of Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum.
Introduction with Katharine Jackson Lualdi, Washington DC: The Catholic
University of America Press, 2011.
“Reformation Understandings of Worship and Preaching,” in T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology, T&T Clark, 2012. “The Medieval Sermon: Text, Performance and Insight,” in Understanding Medieval Primary Sources: Using Historical Sources to Discover Medieval Europe, ed. JoelRosenthal, Routledge, 2012. “Support for Preaching in Guido of Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum,” In Pastoral Care in the Later Middle Ages, Ronald J. Stansbury, editor, Leiden: Brill, 2010. “Learning to Worship in the Later Middle Ages: Enacting Symbolism, Fighting the Devil, and Receiving Grace,” Archive for Reformation History, 99 (2008), 36-65. Christ, Creeds and Life: Conversations about the Center of Our Faith. Ed. with Douglas Jacobsen. Cleveland: United Church Press, 2007. "What's New in the History of Christianity?" Religion Compass. j.1749-8171.2006.00021.x "Eucharist, Power and Community: A View from Calvin and Nevin," New Mercersburg Review 35 (Autumn, 2004) "The Postilla of Guillermus and Late Medieval Popular Preaching," Medieval Sermon Studies 48 (2004) Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) Penitence in the Age of Reformations St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History ed. with Katharine Jackson Lualdi (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City and University ed. with Jacqueline Hamesse, Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Deborah Stoudt (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales, 1998) Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons ed. with Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Edith olnikowski, Rosemary Hale and Darlene Pryds (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales, 1996) 
Topics in
Church History
Laity in the History of Christianity Lives of Faith Mercersburg Theology |