Sharon Farmer is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the coeditor, with Barbara Rosenwein, of Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society and the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, both from Cornell.

We are starting to see several excellent histories of gender written by authors informed by feminist theories attuned to class, age, and marital status as important categories of difference—categories that only complicate and enrich our vision of past societies. Sharon Farmer's latest work on the lives of the poor in the thirteenth-and fourteenth century Paris is a prime example of this historiographical shift, and the author's approach, method, and insights will prove significant to early modern historians interested in social and gender history.- Christopher R. Corley, Minnesota State University (Sixteenth Century Journal)

Sharon Farmer is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the coeditor, with Barbara Rosenwein, of Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society and the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, both from Cornell.

We are starting to see several excellent histories of gender written by authors informed by feminist theories attuned to class, age, and marital status as important categories of difference—categories that only complicate and enrich our vision of past societies. Sharon Farmer's latest work on the lives of the poor in the thirteenth-and fourteenth century Paris is a prime example of this historiographical shift, and the author's approach, method, and insights will prove significant to early modern historians interested in social and gender history.- Christopher R. Corley, Minnesota State University (Sixteenth Century Journal)