Caroline Dunn
Ph.D. Fordham University, 2007
Assistant Professor
B08 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-6429
cdunn@clemson.edu

Caroline Dunn specializes in the history of medieval Britain.  She focuses on the intersection between social and legal history, with a particular interest in the marriage laws and spousal relationships that were explored in her Fordham University dissertation “Damsels in Distress or Partners and Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England." Additional interests include daily life in urban Europe, medieval conquest and colonization, and the British aristocracy.

Selected Publications and Conference Papers

“Contracting Marriage in York and Paris.”  In Medieval Towns: A Reader.  Edited by Maryanne Kowaleski, 187-90 (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2006).

From Abduction to Criminal Conversation: Civil Actions for Adultery in Medieval and Early Modern England, to be delivered at the Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, San Francisco (November, 2007).

Abducted Wives and Adulterous Wives in the Common Law Courts of Later Medieval England, delivered at a Conference on “Regional Variations of Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1650,” University of Helsinki (August 2006).

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