Barbara Hanawalt

Barbara Ann Hanawalt (born 4 March 1941) is an American historian and bestselling author. She specializes in English medieval social history.

Life

She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her father was a university professor and her mother was a schoolteacher.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College in 1963, a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1964, and a Ph.D., also from the University of Michigan, in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

She taught for a number of years at Indiana University and the University of Minnesota. She finally arrived at the Ohio State University as the King George III Chair of British History in 1999.^[1]

Awards

She was named fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Center for Advanced Studies at Princeton University.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Some of her notable books are:^[1]

• The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History
• The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
• The European World, 400-1450
• Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History
• The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London
• Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England
• Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300–1348

References

External links

• Ohio State University

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