University of Divinity

Spiritual Health and Crusading: Aspects of Preventative Health Care in the Thirteenth Century

This article explores the nature of ‘spiritual health’ as an important aspect of medieval preventative healthcare. Focusing on prescriptive and practical advice to crusaders and pilgrims, including the understudied thirteenth-century Regimen iter agentium vel peregrinantium of Ad...

Being an Island: From Presence to Meaning in the Treatises of Teresa de Cartagena

Abstract Teresa de Cartagena (ca. 1425 – after 1478) was a disabled nun who faced a tripartite predicament as an author: deafness, gender, and her lineage within a Jewish convert family in medieval Spain. Regrettably, scholarship has tended to encapsulate her in a three-walled bo...

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: the interpretive dilemma of strategic and compassionate leadership

Purpose This paper challenges the perceived antagonism between strategic leadership and compassionate leadership. It argues that the tension is not inevitable in organizational decision-making, but arises from essentialist assumptions that treat strategy and compassion as fixed l...

Deconstructing the Social Construction of Leadership: Disentangling Constructivism, Constructionism, Co-Construction, Critical Constructionism, and Other Constructions of Leadership

The phrase “leadership is socially constructed” is widely invoked but rarely clarified, creating conceptual ambiguity in leadership research. This paper disentangles the theoretical roots of constructionist thought in leadership studies by distinguishing four core traditions, con...