Dr. Eric W. Gritsch
The Rev. Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund, Ltd.
PO Box 23064
Baltimore, MD 21203-5064
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2019 Symposium
Is What You See What You Get?
The 6th Annual Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund Symposium
was held on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at Baltimore's historic George Peabody Library
Dr. Carlos Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, spoke on: Bodies that Defy the Laws of Nature: Miracles as Catholic Resistance to the Protestant Disenchantment of the World.
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Thomas Santa Maria, Gritsch Fellow, and Ph.D candidate in Renaissance Studies and History, Yale University, spoke on: To See or Not to See: Catholic Reformers, the Senses and Tridentine Orthopraxis
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Carlos Eire received his PhD from Yale in 1979. He specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe with a strong focus on both Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety, and the history of the supernatural and the history of death. Since 1996 he has been on the Yale faculty. He is the author of REFORMATIONS, FROM MADRID TO PURGATORY: THE ART AND CRAFT OF DYING IN 16TH CENTURY SPAIN, AND A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF ETERNITY.
Dr. Eire was born in Havana, Cuba, and at 11 he came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied child in an airlift known as “Operation Peter Pan.” He has two memoirs dealing with his experiences during that time. The first entitled WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA won the National Book Award in the U.S. and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Thomas Santa Maria is the first Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fellow. He is presently a PhD candidate at Yale in the area of Renaissance Studies and History. His research interests relate to “sense” history and the challenges presented by the ambivalent role of the senses in spiritual life. He is exploring the senses and asking whether they are tools that move the mind to God and lead to eternal life or do the senses serve as a gateway that leads to eternal death.
The Rev. Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund, Ltd.
PO Box 23064
Baltimore, MD 21203-5064
bonbmore