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Heather J. Tanner

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1993Rising activity
Medieval Literature and HistoryMedieval and Early Modern JusticeReformation and Early Modern ChristianityHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisHistorical Economic and Social Studies

Publications

61

Citations

68

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

33

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
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Heather J. Tanner studies medieval European history, focusing on political power, governance, and gender in high medieval France and England. Much of her recent work centers on women who held lordship or countship, such as the countesses of Boulogne, examining how they exercised authority, managed inheritance and law, and used patronage and commemoration to maintain power. She also studies emotional expression like anger and violence as tools of political power in medieval French chronicles.

Medieval women's political power and lordshipGovernance and law in high medieval EuropeGender and agency in noble householdsAnger and violence as instruments of medieval politicsMedieval French and English aristocratic history

Publication output was intermittent in the earlier part of the decade but surged sharply in 2023 (largely due to a single book's many component chapters/sections), with more modest activity in 2024-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 1 publication17182019: 4 publications1920212022: 4 publications222023: 18 publications18232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Amsterdam University Press eBooks×9
  • The New Middle Ages×2
  • ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University)×2
  • Boydell and Brewer eBooks×2
  • Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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