Jacqueline Murray

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto, Centre for
      Medieval Studies, 1987
M.A. University of Toronto, 1979
B.A. University of British Columbia, 1978

Professional

University of Guelph:
    Director of First Year Seminars, 2011-2016
    College of Arts, Dean, 2001-2006
    Professor Department of History, 2001-
University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, Adjunct Faculty - 2024
St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Fellow - 2022
University of Windsor, Department of History, 1988-2001

Awards

Fellow, Royal Historical Society 2021-

Visiting Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto 2017-2018
Donald Bullough Fellowship in Mediaeval History,
     Department of Mediaeval History, University of 
     St. Andrews, Scotland, 2016-2017
Guelph Woman of Distinction - Education, May 2014
     (YWCA Guelph)
3M National Teaching Fellow, 2014
     (Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education)
John Bell Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
     (University of Guelph)
D2L Innovation Award, 2013
     (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
Special Merit Award, 2011
     (University of Guelph Faculty Association)

Research

medieval Europe
sexes, genders, and sexualities
masculinity and male embodiment
theological and cultural ideas about gender and sexuality, marriage and family
post-secondary pedagogical innovation and research

    areas of research for graduate supervision
medieval social and ecclesiastical history
marriage and family in premodern Europe
premodern gender and sexuality

Publications

    books

From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe (London: Routledge, 2025).

co-editor with Konrad Eisenbichler, Premodern Masculinities in Transition in Premodern Europe, introduced by Jacqueline Murray (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2024).

editor, Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence: Masculinities in Premodern Europe, introduced by Jacqueline Murray. Studies and Texts series (Toronto: CRRS, 2022).

editor, The Male Body and Social Masculinity in Premodern Europe, introduced by Jacqueline Murray. Studies and Texts series (Toronto: CRRS, 2022).

editor with Nicholas Terpstra, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in the Italian Renaissance, Introduced by Jacqueline Murray (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019).

editor, Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012).

editor, Love, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. A Reader (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001).

editor, Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West (New York: Garland, 1999).

co-editor with Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and Discipline. Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).

    articles and book chapters

“Inside and Out: What did Religious Men Wear Under Their Habits?” Florilegium 20 (2023): 1–12.  doi.org/flor-2022-0009.

“Love in the Medieval Family.” In A Cultural History of Love (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), 43-67. 

“The Battle for Chastity: Miraculous Castration and the Quelling of Desire in the Middle Ages,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 28, no. 1 (2019): 96–116.

“Masculinity and Male Sexuality in the Middle Ages,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, edited by Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

"Family Life in the Middle Ages," in Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, edited by Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

editor and author introduction, "A Miscellaneous Medievalist: Essays in Honour of Margaret Wade Labarge" - special issue, Florilegium 28 (2011).

with Ruth Mazo Karras, “The Sexual Body," in A Cultural History of the Human Body, vol. 2., edited by Monica Green (London: Berg, 2010), 63-80.

"Flexible Friendships: Martha Vicinus Explores Women's Intimacy," Journal of Women's History 20, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 146-50.

"Remember When We Couldn't See the Women?" Medieval Feminist Forum 44, article 7 (2008): 81-85.   online: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol44/iss1/7

“One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders?” in Professing Gender in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, edited by Lisa Bitel and Felice Liftchitz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 52-75.

“Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspective," in The Boswell Thesis. Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, edited by Mathew Kuefler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 254-72.

“Historicizing Sex, Sexualizing History," in Writing Medieval History, edited by Nancy Partner (London: Hodder, 2005), 133-52.

"Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity and Monastic Identity," in Holiness and Masculinity, edited by K.J. Lewis and P. Callum (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), 24-42.

"'The Law of Sin that is in My Members': The Problem of Male Embodiment." In Gender and Holiness. Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe, edited by Samatha J.E. Riches and Sarah Salih (London: Routledge, 2002), 9-22.

"Blessing Unions Through the Ages," National Post (December 7, 2000), A18.

"Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard, Hugh of Lincoln and Sexual Control," in Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, edited by Jacqueline Murray. New York: Garland Press, 1999), 73-91.

"Individualism and Consensual Marriage: Some Evidence from Medieval England," in Women, Marriage, and the Family in Medieval Christendom, Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, edited by Joel T Rosenthal and Constance M Rousseau (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1998), 121-51.

"Gendered Souls in Sexed Bodies: The Male Construction of Sexuality in Some Medieval Confessors' Manuals," in Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages, edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis (York, England: Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 79-93.

"Men's Bodies, Men's Minds: Seminal Emissions and Sexual Anxiety in the Middle Ages." Annual Review of Sex Research 8 (1997): 1-26.