Dr. Sandy Bardsley, author of “Women’s Roles in the Middle Ages” and “Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England,” will deliver the address “Class, Gender and the Black Death” at Williams Center Room S204-ABC on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m.
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The talk coincides with, “Pandemics: How Diseases Shape History,” a conference organized and presented by members of the Department of History’s Fall 2016 Honors Seminar. The Social Studies Club is also co-hosting the talk, which is free and open to the public.
Dr. Bardsley, who is a professor of history at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa., teaches courses on medieval history, English history, history of popular culture and women’s history. Her current research is devoted to the ways archaeological remains provide data about women’s and men’s health in late medieval England.
Bardsley, who received a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has written articles on gender ratios, attitudes towards women’s speech, women’s wages and women’s status in the Middle Ages.
