Expertise:

Medieval Studies

Language(s) spoken:

English

Professional associations:

PhD

Professor McSheffrey's research over the last thirty years has centred on the social, legal, and cultural history of England between the Black Death and the mid-sixteenth century. She has written on immigration, popular revolt and riot, law, mitigation, gender roles, civic culture, marriage, literacy, heresy, and popular religion, publishing many scholarly articles and six books on these topics. Her most recent books are Seeking Sanctuary: Law, Mitigation, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017), and (co-authored with Ad Putter of Bristol University) The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London (Boydell & Brewer, 2023), available Open Access. She has also developed several major online projects, including Consistory: Testimony in the Late Medieval London Consistory Court and Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557, and contributes to blogs and podcasts from time to time. Professor McSheffrey has won several awards for her research and teaching and was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the U.K. in 2002. 

Professor McSheffrey has several projects on the go right now: she is writing a book exploring the circumstances surrounding Evil May Day, an anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517; she is working on a chapter on the gendering of late medieval murder indictments; and she administers and continues to add to the Consistory database.

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