Participant Info
- First Name
- Katrin
- Last Name
- Sjursen
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- ksjursen@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- Keywords
- medieval, gender, women, military, nobility, political
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Academic Articles Published
“The War of the Two Jeannes and the Role of the Duchess in the Fourteenth Century.” Medieval Feminist Forum51, no. 1 (2015): 4-40.
“Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre.” The Haskins Society Journal25 (Nov. 2014): 205-222.
Academic Articles In-press
“Peace, War, and Gender,” a chapter in “A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age,” edited by Walter P. Simons (forthcoming: Bloomsbury Press, 2018).
“Pirate, Traitor, Wife: Jeanne of Belleville and the Categories of Fourteenth-Century French Noblewomen,” a chapter in “Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power 1100-1400: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate,” edited by Heather J. Tanner (forthcoming: Palgrave, 2018).
“Weak Cowards, Foreign Monsters, or Shrewd Strategists?: Defining ‘Women’ and Their Roles in Warfare in Thirteenth-Century Francophone Writings” a chapter in “Representations of Women Warriors and Female Aggression,” edited by Tracey-Anne Cooper and Christine Senecal (forthcoming: Brepols Publishing, 2019).
Public Media Articles Published
“What the Middle Ages Show about Women Leaders.” The Atlantic(Feb. 8, 2016): http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/are-women-leaders-hawks-or-doves-a-lesson-on-gender-equality-from-the-middle-ages/460386/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Gender, Military, Politics, Women
