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Alexandra Cuffel

Adjunct Professor of History

Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations

New York University (PhD)

acuffel@tcnj.edu

609-637-5176

 

Selected Publications

  • “Polemicizing Women’s Bathing among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians.” In The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance, ed. Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott (Leiden: E.J. Brill Press, 2009) 171-188.
  • Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)
  •  Religion, Gender, and Culture in the pre-modern world, ed. Brian Britt and Alexandra Cuffel. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2007)
  • “From Practice to Polemic: shared saints and festivals as ‘women’s religion’ in the medieval Mediterranean.”  The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68/3 (2005) 401-419
  • “‘Henceforward All Generations Will Call Me Blessed’: Medieval Christian Tales of Non-Christian Marian Veneration.” Mediterranean Studies 12 (2003) 37-60.

 

 

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