I am professor of History and director of Medieval Studies at Manhattan College in New York City, where I teach ancient and medieval history, as well as women’s and gender history, digital and public history, and global history. I am the prizewinning author of several articles, chapters, and two books. My research focuses on power and authority, the history of religion especially monasteries and saints, women and gender studies, and the history of health and disease. My current research examines the treatment of leprosy in the medieval cult of the saints. I am also developing a pedagogical game focused on Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des Femmes (advanced to Level 3 by the Reacting Board in 2023). In June 2022 I became the general editor of the Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality.
Books
Jennifer C. Edwards, Daily Life of Women in Chaucer’s England (ABC-Clio, 2022).
Jennifer C. Edwards, Superior Women: Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers’ Abbey of Sainte-Croix (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Jennifer C. Edwards, Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des Femmes (A Reacting to the Past Game in Development, Level 3, 2023)
Education
Ph.D., Medieval History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
M.A., Medieval History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
B.A., Classics–Latin and Greek, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (summa cum laude), 1997
Contact and Social Media
You can email me here.
Follow me on Twitter @ProfJenEdwards.
Visit my Manhattan College faculty page.
Learn more about Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
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