The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt

The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt

Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Katherine L. French and Linda E. Mitchell

Ashgate Publishing, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4094-1154-3

This collection of essays, whose title echoes that of her most well-known book, celebrates the career of Barbara A. Hanawalt, emerita George III Professor of British Studies at The Ohio State University. The volume’s contents — ranging from politics to family histories, from intimate portraits to extensive prosopographies — are authored by both former students and career-long colleagues and friends, and reflect the wide range of topics on which Professor Hanawalt has written as well as her varied methodological approaches and disciplinary interests. The essays also mirror the variety of sources Professor Hanawalt has utilized in her work: public documents of the law courts and chancery; private deeds, charters, and wills; works of both religious and secular literature. The collection not only illustrates and reinforces the influence of Barbara Hanawalt’s work on modern-day medieval studies, it is also a testament to her inspiring friendship and guidance during a career that has now spanned more than three decades.

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Contents

The alien clothworkers of London, 1337–1381, Jonathan Good

The bonds of trade: the port of Southampton and the merchants of Winchester and Salisbury, Susan Duxbury

The mayor’s body, Benjamin R. McRee

What is a nice (13th century) English woman doing in the king’s courts?, Janet Loengard

Even money that your bishop has come and gone: episcopal appointments and translations in 14th- and 15th-century England, Joel Rosenthal

Identifying chaste widows: documenting a religious vocation, Susan Steuer

The anonymous heroine: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Rule for his sister, Laura Michele Diener

Maud Marshal and Margaret Marshal: two viragos extraordinaire, Linda E. Mitchell

Patronage, preference and survival: the life of Lady Margaret Sarnesfield, c.1381–c.1444, Douglas L. Biggs

Margery Kempe and the parish, Katherine L. French

The Berenger family’s experience of the Peasants’ Revolt, Anne Reiber DeWindt

Unbounded affection: the complex intimacies of ‘simple’ peasants after the Black Death, Madonna J. Hettinger

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