Sharon Farmer (historian)

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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.

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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

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. 1 2 "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
  9. Review of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages
  10. Reviews of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
  11. Reviews of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris

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