Jennifer C. Ward is a British historian who is a specialist in

medieval women Women in the Middle Ages in Europe occupied a number of different social roles. Women held the positions of wife, mother, peasant, artisan, and nun, as well as some important leadership roles, such as abbess or queen regnant. The very concept of ...

and the

history of Essex Essex is a county in the East of England which originated as the ancient ''Kingdom of Essex'' and one of the seven kingdoms, or heptarchy, that went on to form the Kingdom of England. Origins The name Essex derives from the ''Kingdom of the Ea ...

and East Anglia. Ward is a former senior lecturer in history at

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

, University of London.

Selected publications

*''The estates of the Clare family, 1066-1317'', University of London, London, 1962. *''The de Bohun charter of Saffron Walden'', Saffron Walden Historical Society, 1986. *''The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century'',

Essex Record Office The Essex Record Office is the repository for records about the county of Essex in England. The office is run by Essex County Council Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England. It ...

, 1991. (Studies in Essex History) *''English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages'', Routledge, 1992. (

Medieval World Series The Medieval World Series is a history book series published first by Longman and later by Routledge. Works in the series are intended to be an introduction to the authors' specialist subjects and a summing up of the current scholarship and debates ...

) *''Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. ( Manchester Medieval Studies) *''Women in Medieval Europe: 1200-1500'', Routledge, London, 2002. (Longman History of European Women) *''Brentwood: a history'', Phillimore, Chichester, 2004. *''Women in England in the Middle Ages'', Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2006. *''Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360)'', Boydell Press, 2014. (

Suffolk Records Society The Suffolk Records Society is a local text publication society founded in 1957 to promote the study and preservation of Suffolk records from the Middle Ages to the present day. The society has published over 80 volumes as of 2015, divided into ...

Book 57)

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