Samantha Slaubaugh is a liturgical scholar with a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, “Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne’s Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary,” explores how the hagiographic text for Douceline of Digne utilized narratives of her ecstatic raptures as a liturgical gloss and model for the community. Her time at the ISM will broaden this work to analyze the role of performed emotions in ritual communal identity formation. She aims to present a new method for assessing liturgical formation of medieval beguines when official liturgical manuscripts are lacking. Listen to this podcast to hear Slaubaugh discuss her work on her work on Douceline of Digne.
