About the Author

Barbara A. Hanawalt is a specialist in the English medieval social history. Hanawalt has published extensively in various scholarly journals and collections of essays. Her books include Crime and Community in Medieval England, 1300-1348 (1979), The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993); Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social
Control in Medieval England (1999); The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and the Economy in Late Medieval London (2007). In addition, she edited seven volumes of essays dealing with diverse topics in medieval studies.