In Domina Misericordiae: The Virgin Mary, Justice, and Local Religion, 1130- 1280, Kathleen Stewart, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, uses miracle collections from southern France and northern Spain to examine Marian devotion in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Since the cult of the Virgin in this period lies squarely at the intersection of modern historiographical narratives of the development of Christian spirituality, the individual, and the formation of Western Europe, Stewart’s study is well positioned to address a range of concerns: interior spirituality versus “ritual” religion, the development of the self, the interaction of different social norms in the representation of female power, and the relationship of the local and the universal. In 2002-2003, Kathleen Stewart is Una’s Fellow attached to the Townsend Center.