Fiona Harris-Stoertz

B.A. (University of Calgary); M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Champlain College K4
705-748-1011 x 7097
fharris@trentu.ca

Research Interests:

High Middle Ages, 1050-1330, especially England and Northern France (Anglo-Norman and Angevin realms); life cycle; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding; childhood, adolescence, and education; and saints' cults and miracle stories.

Books:

Gerald M. McDougall and Fiona C. Harris.  Medical Clinics and Physicians of Southern Alberta. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1991.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Fiona Harris-Stoertz “Pregnancy and Childbirth in Twelfth- and Thirteenth- Century French and English Law”, The Journal of the History of Sexuality 21.2 (May 2012): 263-281.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Pregnancy and Childbirth in Chivalric Literature.” Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide 29.1 (2008): 27-36.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Young Women in France and England, 1050-1300.” Journal of Women’s History 12.4 (Winter 2001): 22-46.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Relationships between Parents and their Absent Adolescent Offspring in the High Middle Ages” in The Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 24 (Fall 1997): 38-42.

Chapters in Books

• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Remembering Birth in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England,” in Reconsidering Gender, Time, and Memory in Medieval Culture, eds. Elizabeth Cox, Liz Herbert McAvoy, and Roberta Magnani (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2015), 45-59.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants 600-1300,” Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages, eds. Sara M. Butler and Wendy J. Turner (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 58-87.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Sex and the Medieval Adolescent” in The Premodern Teenager. Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 2002, 225-243.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Teaching the Sorceress” in Medieval Women in Film: An Annotated Handlist and Reference Guide, with Essays on Teaching The Sorceress, Medieval Feminist Forum Subsidia, no. 1 (Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 2000; 2nd edition 2007), 37-40.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. “Adolescence and Authority in Medieval Monasticism” in The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999, 119-140.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz. "Suffering and Survival in Medieval English Childbirth" in Medieval Family Roles, ed. Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre.  New York: Garland Press, 1996, 101-120.
• Fiona Harris-Stoertz, “La figura dell'ostetrica nei testi dell'alto Medioevo,” in Nascere: Il parto dalla tarda antichità all'età moderna, ed. Alessandra Foscati, Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Antonella Parmeggiani (Bologna: il Mulino, 2017), 33-46.