Background
Taylor, Larissa Juliet was born on July 15, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Paul Wesley and Elsie Mae Steiner.
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In an age when the printed book was still in its infancy, the pulpit was the mass medium. A vital part of religious life, sermons were the chief occasions on which the church attempted to bridge the gap between high theology and popular religious culture. The preaching event provided the opportunity for men and women to socialize, flirt, dispute with or mock the preacher and, in a more positive way, to heed the preacher's words and change their lives. Larissa Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts. Previously published by Oxford University Press, 1992. Winner of the 1996 John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America.
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Taylor, Larissa Juliet was born on July 15, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Paul Wesley and Elsie Mae Steiner.
Student, Wellesley College, 1978. ALB, Harvard University, 1981. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1982.
Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1990.
Instructor history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1987-1988; assistant professor, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1988-1993; assistant professor, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1993-1994; assistant professor, Colby College, Waterville, Maine., since 1994. Lecturer in history & literature Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991-1992, lecturer in expert, since 1991.
( In an age when the printed book was still in its infanc...)
Member American History Association, New England History Association (nominating committee), Society for French History Studies, Medieval Academy American, Renaissance Society, Social Science History Association, Western Society for French History.
Married James Robert Smither, August 25, 1983 (divorced July 1988).