Free Thinking Medieval Women: Hadewijch the Beguine and Philosopher

Lunch at 1:00 (RSVP required at the event website) and lecture at 1:30.

David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at USC in Los Angeles, where he studies medieval Christian theology and philosophy of religion. He is the author of The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure (Oxford, 2025), Cusanus Today: Thinking Between Philosophy and Theology with Nicholas of Cusa (CUA, 2024), Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford, 2014), and Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology, with Cabell King (Fordham, 2009). His research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Albertson is the founding executive director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought and contributes to Commonweal and America Magazine.

This event is sponsored by Fons Vitae, the Transformative Ideas Program, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University. or more information, visit the official event page.