Current Council Members

The Council and Officers of the IMSSS as elected in July 2024

President

Patricia Stoop

Vice-President

 

Patricia Stoop researches late medieval (vernacular) sermons from the

Low Countries (c. 1400-1600), with a particular focus on the role of women religious

in preserving and transmitting the sermons delivered by their confessors

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Vice-President

Carolyn Muessig

Caroline Muessig 

Carolyn Muessig is currently working on a monograph that investigates 

the history of premodern female preaching in Western Europe. University Profile

 

Secretary 

Andrew Reeves

 

 Andrew Reeves

Andrew Reeves works on pastoral care in thirteenth-century England,

focusing largely on how parochial clergy and others charged with the cure of souls

served as confessors and catecheists.

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Treasurer

Pietro Delcorno

 Pietro Delcorno

 

Pietro Delcorno is associate professor of medieval history at the University of Bologna.

He researches on late medieval preaching, with a particular focus on Lenten sermon

collections, the Observant movement and the interplay between preaching and other form of religious

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Councilors

Jussi Hanska

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Jussi Hanska works on the social and cultural history of 13th and

14th century preaching. He has published books and articles on the history of poverty,

natural disasters, and anti-Judaism seen through the model sermon collections.

 

Pavel Soukup

 Pavel Soukup

Pavel Soukup studies late medieval sermon collections from Central

Europe. He is also interested in religious polemics, heresy and crusade

in the fifteenth century. At the intersection of these research fields,

his favourite topic is the preaching of the cross against the Hussites.

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Eleonora Lombardo  

Eleanor Lombardo

 

Eleonora Lombardo works on Late Medieval Latin sermons (13th-14th cent.)

written by Franciscan and Dominican friars with a particular focus on the

construction of holiness and on antiheretical struggle. 

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Editors of Medieval Sermon Studies

Shari Boodts 

Shari Boodts

Shari Boodts works on the dissemination, manipulation and reuse of

late-antique preaching in the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on

Augustine and the numerous anonymous sermons attributed to him over

the course of their transmission. She also maintains PASSIM, a database and search interface

for the study of patristic texts in medieval manuscripts.

Linda Gale Jones 

Linda Gale Jones 

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Book Review Editor

Edward J. Sutcliffe

 

Edward Sutcliffe

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Kimberly Rivers

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