Fiona Harris-Stoertz

Associate Professor and Chair
B.A. (University of Calgary); M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Lady Eaton College S101.5
705-748-1011 x 7097

fstoertz@trentu.ca

Teaching interests: medieval England and Europe, medieval women, medieval warfare, medieval education, history of Christianity

Research interests: high medieval adolescence; High medieval pregnancy and childbirth

Current research projects: a study of high medieval adolescence in England and France, looking especially at monks, knights, university students, and apprentices; a study of pregnancy and  childbirth also in high medieval England and France

Select publications:

“Pregnancy and Childbirth in Chivalric Literature,” Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide 29.1 (2008): 27-36.

"Sex and the Medieval Adolescent" in The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 225-243.

 “Young women in France and England, 1050-1300", Journal of Women's History, 12 (2001), pp. 22-46.

"Adolescence and Authority in Medieval Monasticism" in The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999), pp. 119-140.