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Sharon Farmer

Current Courses

Fall 2009 (current)

  • History 117C
    Women, the Family, and Sexuality in the Middle Ages [cross listed]

Winter 2010 (tentative)


Spring 2010 (tentative)


Department Fields

Announcements

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Current Graduate Students

Medieval: Women, Social, Religious


Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

Office: HSSB 4239 Fall 2009 Hours: Thurs. 2:30-4:30 or by appointment
Phone: DISCONNECTED   Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: farmer@history.ucsb.edu

For a list that includes recent and current dissertations directed by me, please see the UCSB Medieval Studies website.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Medieval women and gender, medieval towns, medieval poor, relations between western Europe and the east

Current Projects

  • Northern France and the Cultures of the Mediterranean: Count Robert II of Artois, 1250-1302
  • Gender and Work in Medieval Paris
  • "Parisian Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Paris
    to appear in _Women, Wealth and Power in Medieval Europe_, ed. Theresa Earenfight (Palgrave, 2009)

Selected Publications

  • Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor
    Cornell University Press, 2002
  • Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours
    Cornell University Press, 1991
  • Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages
    co-edited with Carol Pasternack (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003)
  • Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society
    co-edited with Barbara Rosenwein (Cornell University Press, 2000)
  • "Low Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the Treasures of Oignies"
    in: _History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person_, ed. by Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (2007)
  • "The Leper in the Master Bedroom: Thinking Through a Thirteenth-Century Exemplum"
    in _Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods_, ed.Wolfthal and Voaden
  • "Biffes, Tiretaines, and Aumonieres: The Role of Paris in the International Textile Markets of the 13th and 14th c."
    in _Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2(2006): 73-89