Patricia Skinner

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Patricia Skinner (* 1965 ) is a British medieval historian.

Patricia Skinner earned her MPhil and Ph. D. from Birmingham University . She taught as a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Southampton . In 2011 she moved to the Welsh University of Swansea , where she holds a personal chair as a research professor . Her research interests are in the history of southern Italy up to the emergence of the Kingdom of Sicily, especially the history of Gaeta , gender studies and the Jews in medieval Britain.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Family Power in Southern Italy: the Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbors 850-1139 Cambridge: CUP, 1995
  • Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy , Leiden: Brill 1997
  • Women in Medieval Italian Society, c.500-1200 , London: Longman, 2001; Italian edition Rome: Viella 2005
  • Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives Editor, Boydell, 2003
  • Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe . Palgrave Macmillan US 2017 ( Open Access )

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