Sherri Olson

Areas of Specialty

Medieval Europe, Social History

Current Research Interests

Village government and society; connections between monastic and peasant culture, 13th-15th centuries.

Biography

Education:

1988 Ph.D., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
1980 M.A., History, Indiana University, Bloomington
1977 B.A., History and French, Indiana University, Bloomington

Community/University Outreach:
History Department Coordinator, Early College Experience Program 2005 - present
Faculty Organizer, Annual Medieval Studies/Early College Experience Secondary Schools Outreach, 1998 - present

Selected Publications

Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery, in the ‘Daily Life through History’ series. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut (forthcoming, 2010).

A Mute Gospel: The People and Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009.

“Rural Local Records” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus.  New York and London: Routledge, 2006:  699-701. 

A Chronicle of All That Happens: Voices from the Village Court in Medieval England. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996.

“’Families Have Their Fate and Periods’:  Varieties of Family Experience in the Pre-Industrial  Village,” in The Salt of Common Life:  Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside and Church.  Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis, edited by Edwin B. DeWindt. Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (1995): 409-448.

“Family Linkages and the Structure of the Local Elite in the Medieval and Early Modern Village,” Medieval Prosopography 13:2 (Autumn 1992): 53-82.

“Jurors of the Village Court: Local Leadership Before and After the Plague in Ellington, Huntingdonshire,” Journal of British Studies 30 (July 1991): 237-256.