Jacqueline Murray

Jacqueline Murray is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Guelph. She is an historian of medieval Europe and an international leader in the history of marriage and family and sex and gender in the Middle Ages. Her current research focuses on men, masculinity, and embodiment in the premodern world. She has written and/or edited seventeen scholarly books and 28 peer-reviewed articles. She is a regular speaker community groups interested in the broad past. Jacqueline is also a public academic, using medieval scholarship to bring an historical perspective to public debates and has contributed to CBC Ideas, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Religion News, among others.