Maria Doerfler is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity in Late Antiquity at Duke Divinity School. She is particularly interested in early Christian readings of scripture and their deployment in situations of personal or communal crisis. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Le Muséon, Church History, and the Journal of Early Christian Studies. She is currently working on her first book, a study of the intersection of Roman law and monastic and clerical formation in the Latin West at the turn of the fifth century.

Maria Doerfler on MRB

An Immodest Proposal. On Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity.