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Meghan Woolley

Assistant Professor - Medieval Europe

Office: LA 335

208-282-2379

meghanwoolley@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Duke University
M.Litt. The University of St Andrews
B.A. Hamilton College

Research Interests

Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman and Angevin England, the history of emotions, love and friendship,
cultural history, legal history

Publications

“Better than Just Fine: Combining Final Concords with Documentary and Symbolic Practices,” The Journal of
Legal History 44.3 (2023): 225-255.
“Anger Management: Modeling Christian Kingship in Peter of Blois’s Dialogus,” The Haskins Society Journal 32
(2020): 185-203.

Public-Facing Articles

“The Charters in the Margin of Matthew Paris’s Chronica Maiora,” Medievalists.net, 2022.
“True Knights Kiss their Friends,” Culturico, 2021.
“The Language of Love in a 12th-Century English Law Book,” Pysche, 2020.

Courses Taught

HIST 1101: World History I
HIST 4431: Love in Medieval Europe