Karen Scott
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Scott is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. For the past six years she has also directed the university's Catholic Studies Program where she teaches courses in church history, Medieval intellectual history, Medieval mysticism, Renaissance Italy, Reformation Europe, and gender history.

Some of her many published articles include: "Le langage mystique de Marie de l'Incarnation." In Raymond Brodeur, ed., Femme, mystique et missionnaire: Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation. Tours, 1599-Quebec, 1672. Actes du Colloque Marie de l'Incarnation, Québec, 22-25 septembre 1999.  Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001. 169-177; "Catherine of Siena and Lay Sanctity in Fourteenth-Century Italy." In Ann W. Astell, ed., Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: The Search for Models. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000; "Mystical Death, Bodily Death: Catherine of Siena and Raymond of Capua on the Mystic's Encounter with God, in Catherine Mooney, ed., Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 136-167, 238-244; "Candied Oranges, Vinegar, and Dawn: The Imagery of Conversion in the Letters of Caterina of Siena" in Dino S. Cervigni, Annali D'Italianistica 13 (1995): Women Mystic Writers, pp. 91-108; "Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa" in E. Ann Matter and John Coakley, Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), pp. 105-119; and “'Io Caterina': Ecclesiastical Politics and Oral Culture in the Letters of Catherine of Siena", in Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus, Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), pp. 87-138.