Research, Papers & Publications

Research interests

Medieval Social and Economic History.

Servants and Masters

Peasant Communities.

Peasant Revolts.

Labor and Mobility in the Middle Ages.

Publications

"So Strategize: The Demands in the Day of the Peasant Woman in Medieval Europe," in
Medieval Women in European Culture and Society, ed. Linda E. Mitchell, Garland Press,
1999.

"Defining the Servant: Legal and Extra-Legal Terms of Employment in Fifteenth-Century England," in The
Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery,and Labor in Medieval England, ed. Allen J. Frantzen and Douglas
Moffat, Cruithne Press, distributed by Boydell and Brewer, 1994.

Review, The Medieval Village by G.G. Coulton, Speculum, January 1992.

The Hamilton Social Science Review, Editor, 1989;

Associate Editor, 1986-88.

Manuscript: 'Forto Labur Bysyly: Episodes in Identity and Freedom

in Late Medieval England.

Papers

"Desire and the Middle Ages," Inaugural Lecture for The Lawrence

Stanley Chair of Medieval History, The College of Wooster, October 11,

1998.

"New Pedagogies for the Multicultural Classroom," Diversity, Learning,

and Institutional Change, Conference sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 1997.

"Comment" for session on "Christians and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages," The Ohio Academy of
History, Annual Meeting, April 1997.

"Part-Time Peasants? Laboring Off the Land in Late Medieval England."

The American Historical Association, 110th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 1996.

"Laboring in the Shadows: The Cathedral as Place and Personal Identity for Medieval Workers." The
Cathedral Experience: Centers of Medieval Culture and Community, Inaugural Conference of the Center for
British Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, October, 1995.

"Workers Who Won't: Labor As Resistance in Late Medieval England."

The New Chaucer Society, Ninth International Congress, Trinity College,

Dublin, July, 1994.

"Contracts and Courts: Arrangements of Labor in Late Medieval England." Midwest Medieval History
Association, University of Notre Dame, November, 1993.

"Defining the Servant: Legal and Extra-Legal Terms of

Employment in Fifteenth Century England." Center for Medieval

Studies, University of Minnesota, November, 1992

"Critical Pedagogy and the Contest for A Past." Social Science

History Association, New Orleans, November, 1991.

Co-presented with Prof. Kathleen Biddick of The University of

Notre Dame.

"Servant and Master Law in Late Medieval England." American

Society for Legal History, San Francisco, October, 1991.

"Vagabonds and Villeins: Legal Extortion and Legal Status in

Fifteenth-Century England." International Congress of

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1991.

"Village Elders and the Enforcement of the Statute of Labourers."

Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, October, 1990.

"The Politics of Education: Teaching 'Power, Difference and

Discrimination.'" Great Lakes Colleges Association, Women's

Studies Conference, Dayton, November, 1990.

"'Finding Good Help' In Fifteenth-Century England."

International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1990.

"Power and Personal Mobility." Institute for Cultural Analysis,

New York University, 1985.

"Occupational Mobility in England After the Black Death." Social

Science History Association, Bloomington, 1982.