Sara M. Butler
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
Publications
131
Citations
741
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
47
Publishing since 1978
Sara M. Butler studies medieval and early modern English legal and social history, with particular attention to crime, violence, gender, and the law's treatment of women's bodies, marriage, and domestic life. Her work draws on court records and legal history to examine how law enforcement, litigation, and punishment functioned in medieval England and Christian Europe more broadly. Much of her recent output includes both original research articles and book reviews in medieval studies and legal history journals.
Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, with a peak in 2021 followed by a gradual decline through 2024, though she continues to publish steadily including reviews and articles each year.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- <i>Peasants Making History: Living in an English Region 1200–1540</i> by Christopher Dyer
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 2024
- Engendering carcerality: An introduction
Gender & History · 2024
- :<i>Crusades and Violence</i>
Speculum · 2024
- Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Women's Pregnant Bodies
Law and History Review · 2024
- Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. ix + 471 pp. $75.00 hardcover or ebook.
Church History · 2024
- Even a Compensation Culture has Its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England
The Journal of Legal History · 2023
- ATTITUDES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE
2023
- Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Christian Europe
Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2023
- Enforcement: Crime Detection and Law Enforcement in Late Medieval England
2023
- :<i>Litigating Women: Gender and Justice in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1800</i>
Early Modern Women An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2023
- Elizabeth Allen. Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 311. $59.95 (cloth).
Journal of British Studies · 2023
- Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Christian Europe
2023
- Constance Brittain Bouchard, <i>Negotiation and Resistance: Peasant Agency in High Medieval France</i>. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2022, pp. vii, 169.
Mediaevistik · 2023
- Adverse effects of COVID-19 pandemic on a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Journal of Perinatology · 2022
- Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici, <i>Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100–1450</i>
Journal of History · 2022
- Cambridge University Press eBooks×11
- Law and History Review×3
- Journal of History×3
- Church History×3
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- Heather J. Tanner
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Joshua S. Easterling
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Patricia Clare Ingham
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Karen A. Winstead
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Shannon Gayk
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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