红杏视频

Bio

I research and teach mainly the social and cultural history of Europe. Past courses that I have taught at UVic include Witchcraft and its Prosecution in the Early Modern Atlantic World (HSTR 385A), Early Modern Europe (HSTR 240A), and France from the Renaissance to Louis XIV (HSTR 346). My research examines the social, religious, and legal history of women, gender, and the family in pre-modern Europe. I am especially interested in the ways that Canon and Roman family law intersected and evolved at the parlement of Paris (the highest court of appeal in ancien régime France), the history of emotion, the symbiotic relationships between honour and virtue, and the dynamic ways that sex and gender roles played out in both the courtroom and at home. My current book project, titled ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, examines criminal appeals for adultery, clandestine marriage, bigamy, and infanticide at the parlement of Paris from 1500-1700. In addition to teaching history, I am an associate fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society and a co-ordinator and learning strategist at the Centre for Accessible Learning.