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 Society of Canada, 2025
• 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).

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.

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