About

J. David Puett is an Adjunct Professor, Regents Professor, and Department Head Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia. He is associated with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His contact information includes an email address at jdpuett@med.unc.edu and a physical address at 120 Mason Farm Rd, Campus Box 7260, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. His professional focus involves biochemistry and biophysics, and he holds a distinguished position as a Regents Professor and Department Head Emeritus, indicating a significant contribution to his field and leadership within his department.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Law
• History
• Classics
• Art history
• Art

Selected publications

• Saint Agnes of Bohemia: A Thirteenth-Century Iconoclast and the Enduring Legacy of Her Convent as a Sacred Space for Religious Art

  Religions · 2021 · 2 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Art

  Refusing to accept her expected role of becoming an item of negotiation in an arranged marriage to strengthen a political alliance, Agnes of Bohemia (1211–1282), daughter of King Přemysl Otakar I of Bohemia and Queen Constance of Hungary, chose to use her royal dowry to finance construction of the first hospital, convent, monastery, and church in Prague committed to the teachings of Saint Francis. Her youth was influenced by nuns providing her education, by a strong familial precedent in the support of churches and convents, and by religious contemporaries. Joining the fledging Franciscan movement, this remarkably well-educated and deeply committed woman entered as abbess of the convent in 1234, dedicating her life to poverty without endowment, devotion, and service to the sick and poor. Agnes was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1874 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1989. Her legacy remains in Prague today with the Gothic convent she constructed now serving as a premiere museum devoted to the Medieval and Renaissance religious art of Prague and Central Europe. Thus, the original goal of building a sacred space for sisters in order to foster spiritual mediation has now been redirected to provide the public the opportunity to become immersed in ecclesiastical reflection viewing the works of artists such as Master Theodoric, the Master of Vyšší Brod, the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, and others.

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Frequent coauthors

• Susan B. Puett

  4 shared

Labs

• UNC Department of Biochemistry and BiophysicsPI

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