Monks, Ricotta, and Magisterial Feminae: Professor Lauren Mancia

Micah and Professor Mancia had an enlightening discussion while Carter was doing something else idk.

Professor Lauren Mancia is a historian of medieval Christian devotional practices. She received her BA from Columbia University, her MA from University of Toronto, and her PhD from Yale. She is the author of Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp and Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God. She is also a lecturer at the Met Cloisters and will be a Visiting Scholar in the Performance Studies Dept. at NYU.

Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander