Faculty - Shannon McSheffrey
Education
B.A. Carleton University (Ottawa), M.A. University of Toronto, Ph.D. University of Toronto
Brief Academic Biography
Professor McSheffrey's research interests center around gender roles, law, civic culture, marriage, literacy, heresy, and popular religion in late medieval England. She has published a number of scholarly articles and four books, Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995); Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London (Medieval Institute Publications, 1995); Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522 (co-authored with Norman Tanner), Camden Fifth Series, vol. 23 (Cambridge University Press, 2003); Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). Her current research focuses on how late medieval Londoners used law, legal records, and legal archives, focusing especially on a book about St. Martin Le Grand, a sanctuary zone in the heart of London.
Dr. McSheffrey is currently serving as Department Chair.
Major Publications
Books and Major Online Projects
Consistory: Testimony in the Late Medieval London Consistory Court, online at http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/consistory, 2008- [online database]
Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series, 2006).
Shannon McSheffrey and Norman Tanner, ed. and trans., Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522. Camden Fifth Series, vol. 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series, 1995).
Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London, TEAMS Documents of Practice Series (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995).
Articles
Shannon McSheffrey and Julia Pope, “Ravishment, Legal Narratives, and Chivalric Culture in Fifteenth-Century England,” Journal of British Studies 48:4 (2009): 818-36; link through Concordia Libraries:
http://0-www.journals.uchicago.edu.mercury.concordia.ca/doi/pdf/10.1086/603597
“Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London,” Law and History Review 27:3 (Fall 2009): 483-514; Open Access link: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/27.3/mcsheffrey.html.
"Detective Fiction in the Archives: Court Records and the Uses of Law in Late Medieval England," History Workshop Journal 65 (Spring 2008). Link through Concordia Libraries:
http://0-hwj.oxfordjournals.org.mercury.concordia.ca/cgi/reprint/65/1/65
"Whoring Priests and Godly Citizens: Law, Morality, and Clerical Sexual Misconduct in Late Medieval London," in Local Identities in England 1400-1700, pp. 50-70, edited by Daniel Wolf and Norman Jones (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
"Heresy, Orthodoxy, and English Vernacular Religion, 1480-1525," Past and Present, 186 (February 2005): 47-80. Open Access link:
http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/186/1/47?ijkey=pnK202z1sL0kPY3&keytype=ref
"Place, Space, and Situation: Public and Private in the Making of Marriage in Late-Medieval London," Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 79 (2004): 960-90.
"Men and Masculinity in Late Medieval London Civic Culture: Governance, Patriarchy, and Reputation," in Conflicting Identities: Men in the Middle Ages, pp. 243-278, ed. Jacqueline Murray (New York: Garland Press, 1999).
" 'I will never have none against my father's will': Consent and the Making of Marriage in the Late Medieval Diocese of London," in Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B., pp. 153-74, ed. Joel T. Rosenthal and Constance M. Rousseau (Kalamazoo: University of Western Michigan Press, 1998).
"Jurors, Respectable Masculinity, and Christian Morality," Journal of British Studies 37 (1998): 269-278. Link through Concordia Libraries:
http://0-www.jstor.org.mercury.concordia.ca/stable/pdfplus/175820.pdf
"Conceptualizing Difference: English Society in the Late Middle Ages," Journal of British Studies 36 (1997), 34-39. Link through Concordia Libraries:
http://0-www.jstor.org.mercury.concordia.ca/stable/pdfplus/175905.pdf
"Literacy and the Gender Gap in the Late Middle Ages: Women and Reading in Lollard Communities," in Women, the Book and the Godly, 157-70, ed. Jane H.M. Taylor and Lesley Smith (Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 1995).
"Women and Lollardy: A Reassessment," Canadian Journal of History 26 (1991), 199-223.
Professor
Office: LB 1001.07
514-848-2424 ex. 2417
2009/10 Courses:
HIST 201/2 Section Y:
Introduction to European History to 1789