Barbara Hanawalt

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Barbara Ann Hanawalt (born March 4, 1941 in New Brunswick , New Jersey ) is an American historian .

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Hanawalt's mother was a primary school teacher and the father was a professor of philosophy. She put her Bachelor 1963 at Douglas College of Rutgers University from. A year later, the Masters at the University of Michigan followed . She was inspired by Sylvia Thrupp to work on crime in 14th century England. In order to gain a better knowledge of the legal system and of the economic and social conditions, she did a two-year research stay in England from 1967 to 1969. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1970 . After various teaching positions at the University of Southern California and the University of Oregon , among others , she was appointed to Indiana University in 1974 and taught there until 1987. In 1985 and 1986 and again from 1988 to 1989 she was in London for archival studies . She became a professor at the University of Minnesota in 1987. There she was director of Medieval Studies for six years . Between 1990 and 1991 she worked at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From 1999 until her retirement, she held the King George III Chair in British History at Ohio State University . There she was director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for two years.

Her research focus is social history in medieval England. She published a comprehensive study of crime in England between 1300 and 1348. The increased interest in women's history led her to write an article on female criminals. In 1986 she published a study on peasant families in medieval England. In a monograph published in 2017, she examined the importance of rituals and social practices using the example of late medieval London.

Hanawalt has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for her research. She is a member of the Medieval Academy of America , Royal Historical Society (since 1994) and the Society of Antiquaries of London (since 2008). She was president of the Social Science History Association and president of the Medieval Academy of America from 2004 to 2005.

She was married to Ronald Giere for the second time until his death in 2020 .

Fonts

  • Crime and conflict in English communities. 1300-1348. Harvard University Press, Cambridge et al. 1979, ISBN 0-674-17580-8 .
  • The ties that bound. Peasant families in medieval England. Oxford University Press, New York et al. 1986, ISBN 0-19-503649-2 .
  • Growing up in medieval London: the experience of childhood in history. Oxford University Press, New York et al. 1993, ISBN 0-19-508405-5 .
  • The wealth of wives. Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. Oxford University Press, New York et al. 2007, ISBN 0-19-531175-2 .
  • Ceremony and Civility. Civic Culture in Late Medieval London. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-049040-9 .

literature

  • Medieval Studies and Women's History. A conversation with Barbara Hanawalt. In: Austrian Journal of History . 4th vol., No. 4, 1993, pp. 298-304 ( online ).
  • Tamara K. Haven: Hanawalt, Barbara. Hanawalt, Barbara. In: Jennifer Scanlon, Shaaron Cosner: American Women Historians, 1700s – 1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29664-2 , pp. 101-103.
  • Barbara Hanawalt. In: Wissenschaftskolleg, Jahrbuch 1990/91, pp. 38-40 ( online ).
  • Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French and Douglas L. Biggs (Eds.): The ties that bind. Essays in medieval British history in honor of Barbara Hanawalt. Ashgate, Farnham 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1154-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by Karl Schnith in: Historische Zeitschrift. 235, 1982, pp. 166-167; JA Sharpe in: IAHCCJ Newsletter. No. 3 (October 1980), pp. 12-14; Alan Harding in: American Journal of Legal History. 25, 1981, pp. 69-70.
  2. ^ Barbara Hanawalt: The fern ale felon in fourteenth-century England. In: Viator 5 (1974), pp. 253-268; Reprinted in: Susan Mosher Stuart (Ed.): Women in medieval society. Philadelphia 1976, pp. 125-140.
  3. ↑ See the review by Barbara J. Harris in: Journal of Social History. 21, 1987, pp. 383-385.
  4. ^ Barbara A. Hanawalt: Ceremony and Civility. Civic Culture in Late Medieval London. Oxford 2017. See the reviews by Andreas Kistner in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), No. 2 [15. February 2018], ( online ); Marcus Meer in: Urban History. 46, 2019, pp. 768-770; JS Hamilton in: Journal of British Studies . 57, 2018, pp. 373-374; Benjamin Müsegades in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . 75, 2019, pp. 341-342; Jörg Oberste in: Historical magazine. 310, 2020, pp. 177-178.
personal data
SURNAME Hanawalt, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanawalt, Barbara Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New Brunswick , New Jersey