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My
research interests centre on the history of medieval women and gender,
and the focus of my work is the Mediterranean region, specifically southern
Italy. The region's diverse ethnic make-up led to my current Leverhulme-funded
project on 'The Movement of
Objects and Peoples in medieval southern Italy', including work on
the Jewish community there, and I had a year's Research Fellowship in
2001/2 working on a project entitled 'Did the Jews have a "Middle
Ages"?', published as an article in Past and Present. I am
an active member of the Centre for
Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Selected papers from a memorial conference
to its former Director, Timothy Reuter, will appear under my editorship
as a published volume.
I co-organised
another major international conference in 2004 on Masculinity, Patriarchy
and Power, selected papers of which are currently being edited for
publication.
I serve on the
Editorial Collective of Gender and History (Blackwell), and am
medieval editor for
The Longman History of European Women (volume 2, Women in Medieval
Europe, 1200-1500, by Jennifer Ward, appeared in 2002), and volume
1 is in preparation). In Longman's Women and Men in History series I acted
as medieval editor for and/or contributed to the following:
- Masculinity in Medieval
Europe, ed. D. H. Hadley (1999)
- Barbara Hill, Imperial
Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 (1999)
- Medieval Memories: Men,
Women and the Past 700-1300, ed. E. van Houts (2000)
- Widowhood in Medieval
and Early Modern Europe, ed. S. Cavallo and L. Warner (1999)
I also co-edit
the Manchester University Press series Gender in History. The first medieval
title, which came out in 2003, is Susan Johns, Noblewomen, Aristocracy
and Power in the 12th-Century Anglo-Norman Realm.
I offer supervision
to PhD students in the broad areas of medieval gender studies, women's
history and Mediterranean history. I am currently supervising Tehmina
Goskar's work on the movement of material objects within medieval southern
Italy, and will soon be supervising a comparative project on the history
of English and Sicilian Jewish communities.
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Books, authored
- Family Power in Southern
Italy: the Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139 (Cambridge
University Press, 1995, paperback 2003)
- Health and Medicine in
Early Medieval Southern Italy (Brill, 1997)
- Women in Medieval Italian
Society, 500-1200 (Longman, 2001, Italian edition, Rome, Viella,
2005). See a review
of this book.
Books, edited
- The Jews in Medieval
Britain (Boydell, 2003) See a review
of this book
Conference Contributions -
Refereed
- A cure for a sinner: sickness
and healthcare in medieval southern Italy, in The Community, the
Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe,
ed. J. Hill and M. Swann (Leeds, 1998)
Conference Contributions -
Other
- Women, literacy and invisibility
in southern Italy, in Women, the Book and the Worldly, ed. L.
Smith and J. Taylor (Woodbridge, Boydell, 1995), 1-11.
- Gender and poverty in the
medieval community, in Medieval Women in their Communities, ed.
D. Watt (Cardiff, UWP, 1997), 203-221.
- When was southern Italy
'feudal'?, in Settimane di Studio sull'Alto Medioevo, 47: Il
Feudalesimo nell'alto medioevo (Spoleto, 2000).
Edited Works - contributions
- The widow's options in medieval
southern Italy, in Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,
ed. S. Cavallo and L. Warner (London, Longman, 1999)
- Memory and gender in medieval
Italy, in Men, Women and the Past in Medieval Europe, ed. E.
M. C. van Houts (London, Longman, 2000)
- Roger I, in Encyclopaedia
of Medieval Italy, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (Garland, 2004)
- The Tyrrhenian coastal cities
under the Normans, in The Society of Norman Italy, ed. G. A.
Loud (Brill, 2002)
- Material life, in Oxford
Shorter History of Medieval Italy, 1100-1300, ed. D. Abulafia (Oxford
University Press, 2004)
- Donne nel commercio amalfitano,
1000-1200, in 'Donne nel commercio amalfitano (secoli X-XII)', in Donna
tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna in Italia: ricerche, ed. G. Casagrande
(Perugia, Morlacchi, 2004)
- 'Daughters of Sichelgaita: the women of Salerno in the 12th century',
in Salerno nel XII Secolo, ed. P. Delogu and P. Peduto (Salerno, Centro
Studi Salernitani 'Raffaele Guariglia', 2004).
Editorships - Newsletters
- Co-founder and co-editor
of Wessex Medieval Centre Newsletter
Journal papers - academic
journals
- Noble families in the duchy
of Gaeta in the 10th century, Papers of the British School at Rome,
60 (1992)
- Women, wills and wealth
in medieval southern Italy, Early Medieval Europe, 2 (1993)
- Urban communities in Naples,
900-1050, Papers of the British School at Rome, 62 (1994)
- Politics and piracy: the
duchy of Gaeta in the 12th century, Journal of Medieval History,
21 (1995)
- Disputes and disparity:
women at court in medieval southern Italy, Reading Medieval Studies,
22 (1996)
- 'The light of my eyes':
medieval motherhood in the Mediterranean, Women's History Review,
6 (1997)
- Room for tension: urban
life in Apulia in the 11th and 12th centuries, Papers of the British
School at Rome, 66 (1998)
- 'And her name was...?' Gender
and naming in medieval southern Italy, Medieval Prosopography
20 (1999)
- 'Halt! Be men!' Sikelgaita
of Salerno, gender and the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Gender
and History, 12 (2000)
- 'Gender, memory and family identity: reading a southern Italian Jewish
family chronicle', Early Medieval Europe, 13 (2004)
Journal papers - popular journals
- Medieval women (review article),
The Historian: the magazine of the Historical Association, 36
(1992)
- The possessions of Lombard
women in Italy, Medieval Life, 2 (1995)
Review articles in academic
publications
- Central Middle Ages, 900-1200:
Europe: review of publications of 1996, Annual Bulletin of Historical
Literature, 82 (1998)
- Central Middle Ages, 900-1200:
Europe: review of publications of 1997, Annual Bulletin of Historical
Literature, 83 (1999)
- Central Middle Ages, 900-1200:
Europe: review of publications of 1998, Annual Bulletin of Historical
Literature, 84 (2000)
Reviews of Single
Academic Books omitted from this list
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