Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker

AM, PhD (Harvard)

 
Contact Details

E-mail - jmfb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463311
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

My research interests primarily concern power, law, government, and violence in the later Middle Ages, particularly in France. My current project focuses on 'private war' in Southern France and what it tells us about violence and law in dispute resolution, royal/seigneurial relations, and the rise of the state. I am also working on the Jacquerie and political protest in the fourteenth century, and I have substantial interests in gender history and social history, as well as archives, manuscripts, and bibliography.

Main Publications

  • ed. with Meredith Cohen, Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2010).
  • 'Seigneurial War and Royal Power in Later Medieval Southern France', Past & Present, 208 (2010): 37-76.
  • 'Techniques of Seigneurial War in the Fourteenth Century', Journal of Medieval History, 36 (2010): 90-103.
  • 'From God's Peace to the King's Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare', Essays in Medieval Studies, 23 (2006/7): 19-30.

 

Research Students

Current Research Students

Anna Peterson Sick Soul, Sick Body: Fourth Lateran Council and hospitals in 13th century Narbonne and Siena (with Frances Andrews)

I am happy to supervise students in the following areas

  • France (from 1100 to 1500)
  • Later medieval political and institutional history
  • Violence and dispute resolution
  • Women and/or gender in the Middle Ages

Teaching Duties

Dr Firnhaber-Baker offers the following honours courses:

Main Publications