Jennifer C Awes-Freeman

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Vanderbilt University, 2016.
• M.A.R.: Visual Art, Yale Divinity School, 2009.

Specialties

• Carolingian art
• medieval manuscripts
• history of the book
• art and religion
• iconoclastic debates

Courses Taught

• ARTH/MEST 3009 - Medieval Art

Publications

• “Good Shepherd,”“Nimbus,”“Scala Coeli”: Awes-Freeman, Jennifer, ed. Paul J. J. van Geest, et al., Brill, Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, forthcoming.
• Altered Arks/Arks as Altars: Images of Divine Deliverance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Awes-Freeman, Jennifer, Lee Jefferson, Lexington Books, Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity.
• The Good Shepherd and the Enthroned Ruler: A Reconsideration of Imperial Iconography in the Early Church: Awes-Freeman, Jennifer, Lee Jefferson and Robin Jensen, eds., Fortress Press, The Art of Empire: Christian Art in its Imperial Context, 159-195, 2015. Download
• Erasing God: The Ashburnham Pentateuch in its 9th c. Context and Beyond: Awes-Freeman, Jennifer, Allegorica , 30 3-14, 2015.
• Theologizing Gender in the Rothschild Canticles: Awes-Freeman, Jennifer, Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.2 68-93, 2012.