午夜剧场 Professor Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg’s book, Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1600 was awarded the 2023 Guittard Book Award.
The Guittard Book Award, given by Baylor University, recognizes the best book published during the previous year by a current or former Baylor faculty member or alumni. The book was published by Boydell and Brewer.
Dr. Renberg鈥檚 book takes a look at a time when dancing was once an accepted, regular part of Christian worship and how in later times church officials would view dancing as sinful, severely punishing offending parishioners in an effort to stop such activity.
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Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1600 also won the Founder鈥檚 Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and has been featured in the and on .
More details about Dr. Renberg鈥檚 book can be found on the publisher鈥檚 .