CONTRIBUTORS
Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of EdinÂburgh. She is author of Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England (Oxford, 2007) and various essays on women and genÂder in premodern Europe.
She is also co-editor, with Anna Maslakovic and Sarah Rees Jones, of The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, c. 850-c. 1550: ManagÂing Power, Wealth and the Body (Turnhout, 2003) and, with Kirsten A. Fenton, of Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (London, 2011).Lars Ivar Hansen is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the UniÂversity of Tromso, Norway. His main fields of research are economic and social history, focusing on the role of kinship networks and other networks of alliance, inheritance practices, and the inter-ethnic relations between the peoples of northÂern Fennoscandia. Together with Bjornar Olsen he is the author of Samenes histo- rie fram til 1700 [The history of the Sami until 1700] (Oslo, 2004).
Shennan Hutton received her Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of California, Davis, and teaches courses at various colleges in northern California. Her interests include medieval Flanders, urban history, medieval wool cloth proÂduction, and gender. She is the author of Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (New York, 2011).
Lizabeth Johnson earned her Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2008. She is currently teaching for the University Honors Program at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the transition from native Welsh law to English common law in fourteenth-century Welsh sociÂety. In particular, she focuses on the treatment of women, married and single, in these post-conquest courts and women's access to the court system.
Gillian Kenny teaches history in the Department of Adult Education in UniverÂsity College Dublin. She is the author of Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland c. 1170-1540 (Dublin, 2007). Her interests centre on women's history in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, particularly focusing on the issues surrounding intermarÂriage and cultural exchange.
Mia Korpiola is Reader in Legal History at the University of Helsinki, where she currently works as a Research Fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is author of Between Betrothal and Bedding: Marriage Formation in Sweden, 1200-1600 (Leiden, 2009) and editor of Regional Variations in MatrimoÂnial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (Leiden, 2011). Her interests include sexual crime, family law, and the reception of learned law in medieval and ReforÂmation Sweden. She is now working on women in the legal professions and the legal history of cars and bicycles in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Finland.
Miriam Muller is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on the later medieval English peasantry. Her current research project explores how the position of women in peasant communities varÂied according to locality.
Sheilagh Ogilvie is Professor of Economic History at the University of CamÂbridge. Her research explores how institutional constraints on the decisions of ordinary people affected economic development and human well-being. She is the author of State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Wurttemberg Black ForÂest, 1580-1797 (Cambridge, 1997), A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford, 2003), and Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 (Cambridge, 2011); and co-editor of European Proto-Industrialization (Cambridge, 1996) and Germany: A New Social and EcoÂnomic History (3 vols, London, 1996-2003). She has published widely on women's position in early modern Germany and Bohemia.
Alexandra Shepard is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of GlasÂgow. She is author of Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2003) and several essays on gender and social relations in early modern England. She is co-editor of Communities in Early Modern England (Manchester, 2000) and Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation (Oxford, 2009), and is currently finishing a book on worth, status and the language of self-description in England between 1550 and 1730.
Cathryn Spence is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her Ph.D., completed at the University of Edinburgh, explored the economic roles of women in early modern Scottish towns. Her research interests include urban and economic history, and the impact of gender and socioeconomic status when accessing credit in Western Europe.
Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University. His interests include urban history, the development of common law, and the position of marginalized groups (women, ethnic minorities) within local and national legal frameworks. He is author of Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales: Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348 (Cardiff, 2010).