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Dr. Sharon Hubbs Wright

  • Assistant Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8933
  • swright@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • BA, MA, PhD. Toronto 2007

Research Interests

  • Medieval England, Conflict & Violence Studies, Crusades, Pre-Modern Women’s History, Medical History, The Middle Ages in Film, The Provenance of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Collections on the Canadian Prairies.

Research Projects

  • Community and Conflict after the Great Mortality (1340 – 1370).
  • Principal Investigator: Manuscripts & Early Printed Books in the Prairies (MAEPbooks).
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant - "Women, conflict  and the great mortality in England:  fighting and gender in the wake of the plague."
  • "Devotion and Patrimony:  The Norfolks of Naburn's Chantry Inquest and License (Yorkshire, 1338).

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • "Kowaleski, Maryanne and Goldberg, P.J.P. (eds).  Medieval Domesticity:  Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008.  Pp 317."  Book Review in Journal of Family History (2010).
  • “Broken Cups, Men’s Wrath, and the neighbours’ revenge: The Case of Thomas and Alice Dey of Alverthorpe (1383)” Canadian Journal of History no. 43 (2008): 241–251.
  • “Women in the Northern Courts: Interpreting Legal Records of Familial Conflict in Early Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire.” Florilegium 19 (2002) 27–48.
  • “Male Wrath and the Under-reporting of Violent Women: Evidence from the Fourteenth Century Wakefield Courts.” Presented January 2008, University of Lethbridge.
  • “Lawbreaking Women in Wakefield.” Presented November 2007, North American Conference on British Studies.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • History 121.3 Europe’s Way to the Modern Age
  • CMRS  201.6 Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies: Core Topics
  • History 213.6 Medieval England (not offered in 2009/10)
  • History 216.6 Women’s Lives in the Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Tradition  (not offered in 2009/10)
  • History 298.3 Middle Ages in Film
  • History 309.3 The Crusades and Their Aftermath
  • History 398.3 Violence and Crime in Medieval England

Administrative Responsibilities

Canadian Journal of History, Editorial Board
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Editorial Board
Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Executive Committee
Scholarship & Awards Committee, St Thomas More College
Graduate Committee, History Department, University of Saskatchewan
Research Committee, St Thomas More College.
Member, STM Academic Planning Committee
  Seek for truth in the Groves of Academe.”
— Horace