Franciscan School of Theology
Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality
Core Doctoral Faculty

At GTU since 2001

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1994
M.A., University of Southern California, 1985
B.A., University of Southern California, 1983

Phone: 510/848-5232
E-mail: dpryds@fst.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Medieval Lay Preaching
• Medieval Spirituality
• Mysticism
• Lay Spiritual Practices
• The Laity and the Church
• History of Christianity - Medieval/Reformation

Selected Publications

• Rose of Viterbo, A Thirteenth-Century Street Preacher (forthcoming).
• The King Embodies the Word: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching, (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
• "Studia as Royal Offices: Mediterranean Universities of Medieval Europe," in Medieval Universities in Society, eds. J. Miethke and W. J. Courtenay (Leiden: Brill, 2000).
• "Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Practices: The Case of Rose of Viterbo," in Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity, eds. Pamela Walker and Beverly Mayne Kienzle (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998).
• "Clarisses and the House of Anjou: Temporal and Spiritual Partnership in Early Fourteenth-century Naples," in Clarefest: Word and Image. Selected Papers. ed. Ingrid Peterson (St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1996).
• "Rex Praedicans: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching," De L'Homélie au Sermon. Histoire de la prédication médiévale. Proceedings of the Eighth Sermon Studies Symposium, 9-12 July 1992, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993), 239-262.