Miriam Shadis (D71A-240D-EC58)

Curriculum Vitae

Miriam Shadis

Miriam Shadis earned a Ph.D. in History, and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Duke University. She earned a B.A. from Simon's Rock of Bard College (in Great Barrington, MA), majoring in Intercultural Studies with a minor in Arts and Aesthetics. She has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Villanova University. At Ohio University, she served as a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Charles Ping Institute for the Humanities (2006-2009). She is an associated scholar with the Mediterranean Seminar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, participating in the NEH 2006 Summer Institute: The Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West, in Barcelona, Spain. In the Fall of 2016, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Lisbon, Portugal, working at the National Library and National Archive. Dr. Shadis’ research focuses on royal women in the central and high Middle Ages. She is the author of Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family: Political Women in the High Middle Ages (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) as well as essays on medieval queens of France and Iberia. She is a past editor of The Medieval Feminist Forum. Her current research focuses on royal women in Portugal, for a book tentatively titled The Queens of Early Portugal (1100-1250): Mothers, Sisters, and Saints. Her other research focuses on women at the courts of Castile, León, and Portugal, as well as Marian imagery in medieval Iberian charters.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Miriam Shadis

Citation names

Shadis, Miriam

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D71A-240D-EC58

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Latin
Spanish; Castilian
Portuguese
Catalan
French
German

Education

	Degree	Classification
1994 Concluded	History (Doctor of Philosophy) Duke University, United States Simon’s Rock of Bard College, United States
1989 Concluded	Women's Studies (Postgraduate Certificate) Duke University, United States Simon’s Rock of Bard College, United States
1987 Concluded	History (Master) Duke University, United States Simon’s Rock of Bard College, United States
1985 Concluded	Intercultural Studies/Arts and Aesthetics (Bachelor) Simon’s Rock of Bard College, United States

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012 - Current	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Ohio University Department of History, United States

2006 - 2012	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Ohio University Department of History, United States

Outputs

Publications

Book	Shadis, Miriam. Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the high middle ages. Basingstoke, United States: Palgrave Macmillan US. 2009. Published • 10.1057/9780230103139
Book chapter	Shadis, Miriam. "Women’s Communities at the Cistercian Monastery of Celas (Coimbra, Portugal,". In Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, edited by Lightfoot, Dana Wessell; Armstrong-Partida, Michelle. Lincoln, United States: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. In press Shadis, Miriam. "Family and Friends: the gendered functions of women at the court of Fernando III". In The Age of Fernando III, edited by Holt, Edward; Witcomb, Theresa. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2020. In press Shadis, Miriam. "Unexceptional Women: Power, Authority, and Queenship in Early Portugal". In Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400, edited by Tanner, Heather J., 247-270. Basingstoke, United States: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-01346-2_12 Shadis, Miriam. "“Happier in Daughters than in Sons”: The Children of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet". In King Alfonso VIII of Castile, edited by Smith, Damian; Gomez, Miguel; Lincoln, Kyle, 80-101. Fordham University Press, 2019. Published • 10.5422/fordham/9780823284146.003.0005 Shadis, Miriam. "The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm". In Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 vol. set), edited by Martin, Therese, 671-702. Brill, 2012. 10.1163/9789004228320_018 Shadis, Miriam; Berman, Constance Hoffman. "A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Female Descendants". In Eleanor of Aquitaine, edited by Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John Cami, 177-211. Basingstoke, United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2003. Published • 10.1007/978-1-137-05262-9_8 Shadis, Miriam. "Blanche of Castile and Facinger’s “Medieval Queenship”: Reassessing the Argument". In Capetian Women, edited by Nolan, Kathleen, 137-161. Basingstoke, United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2003. 10.1007/978-1-137-09835-1_7 Shadis, Miriam. "Berenguela of Castile’s Political Motherhood: the management of sexuality, marriage, and succession". In Medieval Mothering, edited by Parsons, John Cami; Wheeler, Bonnie. New York, United States: Garland Press, 1996. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Piety, Politics and Power: the Patronage of Leonor of England and her daughters, Blanche of Castile and Berenguela of León". In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, edited by McCash, June Hall. Athens, United States: The University of Georgia Press, 1996. Published
Book review	Shadis, Miriam. "Penelope Nash, Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)". 93, 3 (2019): 870-871. https://doi.org/10.1086/703734. Published • 10.1086/703734 Shadis, Miriam. "Jean Dangler, Edging toward Iberia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017)". 18.09.15, (2018): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/25646. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Lindy Grant, Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (Yale University Press, 2016.)". 4, 2 (2017): 229-231. https://www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.21039/rsj.v4i2.150/. Published • 10.21039/rsj.v4i2.150 Shadis, Miriam. "Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West (1060-1600), ed. Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz (Palgrave, 2016)". 9, (2017): https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/07/05/queenship-gender-and-reputation-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-west-1060-1600/. Shadis, Miriam. "Simon Barton, Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.)". 97, 2 (2017): 262-264. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/690508. Published • doi.org/10.1086/690508 Shadis, Miriam. "Jesús Á. Solórzano Telechea, Beatriz Arízaga, and Amélia Aguiar Andrade. Ser Mujer En La Ciudad Medieval Europea. Ciencias históricas, 25. (Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2013.)". 15.01.33, (2015): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/18790. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Janna Bianchini, The Queen’s Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile (Philadelphia, 2012.)". (2013): Published Shadis, Miriam. "Kimberly LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067-1137) (Dublin, 2007.)". 28, (2013): 177-180. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Marie A. Kelleher, The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon (Philadelphia, 2010)". 52, 4 (2012): 516-520. Published • 10.1093/ajlh/52.4.516 Shadis, Miriam. "Theodore Evergates, ed. The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne (Medieval Academy Books, 112) (Toronto, 2009)". 86, 3 (2011): 750-751. Published • 10.1017/S0038713411001771 Shadis, Miriam. "Natasha R. Hodgson, Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative (Boydell, 2007)". 95.2.318, (2010): 228-229. Published • 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.00483_4.x Shadis, Miriam. "Nuria Silleras-Fernandez. Power, Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)". 45, 2 (2009): 218-220. Published • 10.17077/1536-8742.1829 Shadis, Miriam. "Jennifer Ward, Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006)". 71, 1 (2009): 180-181. Published • 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00233_66.x Shadis, Miriam. "José Mattoso, D. Afonso Henriques 1109-1185 Series: Reis de Portugal (Lisbon: Circulo de Leitores, 2007)". Fall, (2008): 36-37. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Holly S. Hurlburt, The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: Wife and Icon. (The New Middle Ages.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2006". 44, 1 (2008): 222-225. Published • 10.17077/1536-8742.1722 Shadis, Miriam. "Therese Martin, Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain. The Early Medieval Iberian World Series. (Leiden: Brill, 2006)". Spring, Supplement (2008): 1-3. Published Shadis, Miriam. "The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries, ed. Marcus Bull and Catherine Léglu (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005)". 42, (2006): 163-167. Published • 10.17077/1536-8742.1079 Shadis, Miriam. "Isabel the Queen, Life and Times, Peggy K. Liss, rev. ed., (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)". Spring, (2006): 7-10. https://aarhms.wildapricot.org/Resources/Documents/Newsletters/2006%20Spring.pdf. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain by Joseph O’Callaghan (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)". 03.12.21, (2006): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/15603. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours by Frederic L. Cheyette (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001.)". 34, 1 (2002): 49-51. Published • 10.17077/1536-8742.1260 Shadis, Miriam. "Women, Marriage and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B., ed. Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal. Studies in Medieval Culture 37; Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI: 1998". 99.10.04, (1999): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/14841. Published Shadis, Miriam. "Pierre Dubuis, Les vifs, les morts et les temps qui court; familles valaisanes 1400 - 1550. Cahiers Lausannois d’Histoire Médiévale, no. 16. Lausanne 1995.". 73, 4 (1998): 1132-1134. Published • 10.2307/2887387 Shadis, Miriam. "Simon Barton, The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1997.". 29, (1998): 164-167. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qn4r1zt#main. Published Shadis, Miriam. "John Carmi Parsons, ed. Medieval Queenship, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993". 94.05.04, (1994): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/14229. Published
Journal article	Shadis, Miriam. "The Personal and the Political in the Testaments of the Portuguese Royal Family (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)". Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 43 1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2017.430107. 10.3167/hrrh.2017.430107 Shadis, Miriam. "“Received as a woman”: rethinking the concubinage of Aurembiaix of Urgell". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 8 1 (2016): 38-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2015.1103888. Published • 10.1080/17546559.2015.1103888 Shadis, Miriam. "Women and Las Navas de Tolosa". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 4 1 (2012): 71-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2012.677180. Published • 10.1080/17546559.2012.677180 Shadis, Miriam. "Women, Gender, and Rulership in Romance Europe: The Iberian Case". History Compass 4 3 (2006): 481-487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00330.x. Published • 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00330.x

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/06/26	Signs of Use: Ritual and Queenship in Early Portugal	Kings and Queens 8 Università Degli Studi di Catania; Royal Studies Network (Catania, Italy)
2019	Roundtable participant: “Lucy Pick’s Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms (Cornell University Press, 2017)	International Congress of Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, United States)
2018/07/03	A Man on the Move: Prince Pedro of Portugal (1185-1256) and Male Freedom in Medieval Iberia	International Medieval Congress of Medieval Studies University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2018/03/03	Manifestly Spurious and Pure Fantasy: Falsifications and Truth about Royal Women in 12th Century Portuguese Charters	Medieval Academy of America Emory University (Atlanta, United States)
2018/01/10	Judgment Call: Gendering Sex, Sexuality, and Political Power in Medieval Iberia	Kings and Queens 7: Ruling Sexualities University of Winchester (Winchester, United Kingdom)
2017/09/30	Virgins, Slaves, and Swamps: Gender and the Geography of Value in Medieval Portugal.	Midwest Medieval History Conference Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, United States)
2017/06/03	Gender, Law and the State: Women’s Rule in Medieval Iberia	Berkshire Conference on Women's History Hoftra University (Hampstead, United States)
2017/05/08	Ivanka You Sit Right Here or, The Three Teresas: mothers, daughters, proxy wives and legitimizing the state in early Portugal	Symposium on Gender and Power in the Middle Ages University of Chicago (Chicago, United Kingdom)
2017/03/18	Gender and State Formation in Medieval Portugal, 1100-1250	American Association of Spanish and Portuguese History New York University (New York City, United States)
2016/10/11	Women’s Treasures in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Portugal: The Deluxe and the Domestic	Medieval Princely Treasures: Seeking Treasure -- Sources for the Study of Medieval Treasure University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/06/22	The Essential Queen: Gender, Power, and Authority in Early Portugal	Rainhas de Tempos Remotos (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/05/12	Anger and Queenship: The Wrath of Mary in Iberian Charters	International Congress of Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, United States)
2016/02/25	Natural Children and Political Structure: Sibling Bonds and Conflicts in Thirteenth-Century Portugal	Annual Meeting Medieval Academy of America (Boston, United States)
2015/06/24	Legitimizing Queenship: the First Dynasty of the Kingdom of Portugal	Kings & queens IV – Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy University of Lisbon; Royal Studies Network (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/04/18	Unmarriages, or Political Sexwork: Secular Concubinage in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century	Mid-America Medieval Association XXXIX University of Missouri-Kansas City (Kansas, United States)
2014/10/17	Three Sisters: The Portuguese Monarchy, the Cistercian Order, and the Communities of Lorvão, Arouca and Celas	Midwest Medieval History Conference Dominican Univeristy (River Forest, United States)
2014/07/08	Charting Queenship and Community in Thirteenth-Century Portugal	International Medieval Congress University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2014/06/18	King Maker: Blanche of Castile and the Kingship of Afonso III of Portugal	Saint Louis Medieval Symposium Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, United States)
2014/04/05	The Wrath of Mary: Queenship and Cult in Iberian Charters	Sewanee Medieval Colloquium The University of the South (Sewanee, United States)
2013/07/02	Sisterly Relations in the Portuguese Royal Family, 1200-1272	International Medieval Congress University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2013/06/28	Secrets in the Historiography of Queen Urraca	Secrets and Discovery in the Middle Ages Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/02/20	Studying Queenship in Medieval Portugal: Castles, convents, Chronicles and Charters	Presentation to the Classics and World Religions Honors Colloquium Ohio University (Athens, United States)
2012/11/08	portugal Was Born Here: Gendering a History	History Colloquium (Invited) Wittenberg University (Springfield, United States)
2012/10/19	What Was He Thinking? The 1211 Testament of Sancho I, Privileges and Practices of Queenship, and Civil War in Medieval Portugal.	Midwest Medieval History Conference (Bloomington, United States)
2012/04/20	Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives: Women, Gender, and Monarchy – the Case of Portugal.	Kings and Queens Conference Bath Spa University (Corsham Court, United Kingdom)
2012/03/23	The Foundation of Santa Maria de Cellas and the Extension of Royal Authority under the “Santas Rainhas” Sancha and Teresa in early thirteenth century Portugal	Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (Medford, United States)
2012/02/25	Otherness” in the history of early Portugal: embracing and rejecting women’s rule	MidAmerica Medieval Association (Manhattan, United States)
2011/11/04	Protected Sex: secular concubinage in theory, contract, and practice in Medieval Iberia,” Medieval Club of New York, invited panelist, “Sex in Muslim and Christian Marriage Law	CUNY Graduate Center (New york, United States)
2011/06/12	Gendering and Generating Change at the Monastery of Lorvão (Portugal), ca. 1200: Father to Daughter, Male to Female, Benedictine to Cistercian	15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality and Labor across Time and Space) (Amherst, United States)
2011/05/13	Buying and Buying: One woman’s land acquisition as political strategy in thirteenth-century Portugal	46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, United States)
2010/10/02	Royal Intervention and the Reformation of the Royal Monastery of Lorvão (Portugal) c. 1200: male to female, Benedictine to Cistercian	49th Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference, “Medieval Church and Society (Columbus, United States)
2009/05/07	Her Father’s Daughter: The Significance and Use of Teresa of Portugal’s ‘Queenship’	44th International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, United States)

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2015 - Current	American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain	At Large Member, Executive Committee
2000 - 2008	Society for Medievalist Feminist Scholarship	Member of the Advisory Board

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2017 - Current	Professional Development Committee and Committee on Regional Centers and Associations Member	Medieval Academy of America, United States

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2016 - 2016	Debuerit habere regnum: Deposing and Proclaiming Kings in the Middle Ages	Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras
2014 - 2014	Reinas e Infantas en los Reinos Medievales Ibéricos	Universidade De Santiago de Compostela