Anne Thayer

Short Biography

Anne Thayer is particularly interested in the history of the laity and the popular communication of religious ideas in fiftheenth- and sixteeth-century Europe, especially via preaching. She is the author of Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002) and editor with Katharine Jackson Lualdi of Penitence in the Age of Reformations (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000). She has contributed such collections as Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern World, Larissa Taylor, editor (Brill, Leiden, 2001) and Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, and University, Jacqueline Hamesse et al., eds. (Fédération des Instituts d’Etudes Médiévales, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998). Other articles have appeared in Medieval Sermon Studies and The New Mercersburg Review. She is currently researching the connections between preaching and other pastoral tasks in the later Middle Ages and preparing an English translation of the Manipulus curatorum of Guido of Monte Rochen, a popular late medieval handbook for parish priests. Anne received her PhD in Religion from Harvard University in 1996, and is currently the Paul and Minnie Diefenderfer Associate Professor of Mercersburg and Ecumenical Theology and Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary.