Sharon Farmer (historian)

This article is about the historian. For the photographer, see Sharon Farmer.

Sharon Farmer
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Societal change and religious expression : Saint Martin's cult at Tours, 1050-1200  (1982)

Sharon Ann Farmer is a research professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is known for her research into the medieval period, with a focus on women, social, and religious topics.

Early life, education, and career

Farmber was born on April 9, 1952. ^[1] She got her Ph.D. from Harvard University. ^[2] She worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ^[3] Farmer retired at the end of the 2019 academic year. ^[4]

Works

Farmer is known for her work in medieval women and gender, medieval towns, medieval poor, and relations between Western Europe and the east. Farmer's essay, "Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth Century Paris", shows her using methods such as looking into tax assessments from medieval Paris to provide evidence towards her point. ^[5] In her work "Global and Gendered Perspectives on the Production of a Parisian Alms Purse" in the Journal of Medieval Worlds, Farmer worked with professionals in textile analysis and chemical analysis to determine the makeup of the Parisian alms purse she was researching. ^[6]

Honors and awards

Farmer was elected to the Society of Fellows, Medieval Academy of America in 2015. She was a EURIAS Fellow at the Institut d’études avancées-Paris from 2013 until 2014. ^{[7] [3]}

Selected publications

• Farmer, Sharon A. (1991). Communities of Saint Martin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-2391-8. ^[8]

• Farmer, Sharon A.; Pasternack, Carol Braun, eds. (2003). Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-0-8166-3894-9. ^[9]

• Farmer, Sharon A. (2005). Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-7269-5. ^[10]

• Farmer, Sharon (2017). The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0-8122-4848-7. ^[11]

References

1. "Farmer, Sharon A." The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
2. Farmer, Sharon A. (1982). Societal change and religious expression : Saint Martin's cult at Tours, 1050-1200. OCLC   9788574.
3. "Sharon Farmer". Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
4. Langdon, Dylan (13 March 2019). "Then and Now: A Retirement Tribute for Historian Sharon Farmer". UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
5. Farmer, Sharon (2010), Earenfight, Theresa (ed.), "Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris", Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 89–108, doi:10.1057/9780230106017_6, ISBN   978-1-349-53987-1 , retrieved 2025-09-28
6. Farmer, Sharon (2019-09-03). "Global and Gendered Perspectives on the Production of a Parisian Alms Purse, c. 13401". Journal of Medieval Worlds. 1 (3): 45–84. doi:10.1525/jmw.2019.130004. ISSN   2574-3988.
7. Utilisateur, Super. "Sharon Farmer - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". www.paris-iea.fr. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
8. Reviews of Communities of Saint Martin
   • Paxton, Frederick (1992). "Review of Communities of Saint Martin. Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours". The Catholic Historical Review. 78 (4): 633–634. ISSN   0008-8080. JSTOR   25023888.
   • Reames, Sherry L. (1993). "Review of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours". Speculum. 68 (4): 1111–1113. doi:10.2307/2865531. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   2865531.
9. Review of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages
   • "Review of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages". Speculum. 78 (4): 1440. 2003. doi:10.1017/S0038713400101642. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   20061042.
10. Reviews of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
    • Baldwin, John W. (2005). "Review of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor". Speculum. 80 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1017/S0038713400006953. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   20463193.
    • Schofield, Phillipp R. (2004). "Review of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor". Urban History. 31 (1): 151–152. doi:10.1017/S0963926804231832. ISSN   0963-9268. JSTOR   44613447.
    • Lorcin, Marie-Therese (2002). "Review of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 57 (5): 1371–1373. doi:10.1017/S0395264900032352. ISSN   0395-2649. JSTOR   27587025.
11. Reviews of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris
    • Bove, Boris (2020). "Review of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris. Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience, (The Middle Ages Series)". Medievales (79): 225–228. doi:10.4000/medievales.11147. ISSN   0751-2708. JSTOR   27092802.
    • Field, Sean L. (2018). "Review of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience. (The Middle Ages.), Farmer Sharon". Speculum. 93 (3): 836–838. doi:10.1086/698505. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   26584679.
    • Hess, Erika E. (2018). "Review of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience". The French Review. 92 (2): 246–247. ISSN   0016-111X. JSTOR   48613392.

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