Kate Kelsey Staples
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2006
Teaching Fields: Medieval Europe, women’s, gender, and family history, British history, western civilization, world history
Research Fields: social and cultural history of medieval and early modern Europe; women’s, gender, sexuality, and family history
Publications:
Kathryn Kelsey Staples and Ruth Mazo Karras, “Christina’s Tempting: Sexual Desire and Women’s Sanctity,” in Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman, ed. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser (New York: Routledge, 2004), 184-196.
Selected Presentations:
“Daughters and Inheritance in Late Medieval London,” Medieval and Tudor London seminar, Institute of Historical Research in London. May 26th, 2005.
“The Wishes of Will-Makers: The Nature of Testators and their Influence in Late Medieval London,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. July 10th-13th, 2006.
“Fripperers and Their Trade: Secondhand Clothiers in Late Medieval London,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 5-8th, 2005.
“Daughters and Domesticity: Inheritance in Late Medieval London” Annual Conference, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York. March 12-13th, 2005.
"Sexual Desire and Temptation in the Central Middle Ages: Christina of Markyate" International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 8th, 2003.
