Goldsmiths - University of London

Sarah Lambert

Academic qualifications

BA, MA History, Royal Holloway College, University of London

Teaching

Year 0 (Foundation) Programme Convenor

First year
HT51022A A cultural history of the self
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History

Second and third year
HT52061A/HT52061A The Crusades 1095-1400
HT52094A/HT53094A Latin for Medieval History
HT52081A/HT53081A Gender- Debates and Relationships 800-1300
HT52110B/HT53110B Medieval Monsters: Foreigners and Other Oddities in the Medieval Imagination

Administration

Course Convenor for Integrated degree in History

Departmental Acess and Recruitment Tutor

Areas of supervision

I would welcome research proposals on medieval cultural history, especially issues of gender, ethnicity and identity, or on the study of the crusades and the crusader states.

Research interests

Representations and realities of gender in medieval history and literature. Gender and politics, especially in the organization of the crusader states in Jerusalem and Cyprus. Cultural understanding of the crusades in European literature of the middle ages – views of Islam and the East in popular literature.

Selected publications

Languages of Love and Hate; art and rhetoric in medieval discussions of the crusades (Brepols, forthcoming July 2010)

Review of Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney, France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades, in Art History, Volume 28, Number 3, June 2005, pp. 386-412(27)

Review of Michael Lower. The Barons Crusade: A Call To Arms And Its Consequences University Of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA, 2005. At H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, October 2006

Gendering the Crusades, (editor) (University of Wales Press 2001)

Review of Liz James (ed.), Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium in Gender & History Volume 11 Issue 1 Page 177 - April 1999

'Queen or consort; Rulership in the Latin East 1118-1228' in Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe, ed. Anne Duggan, (Boydell press, Woodbridge 1997)

‘Heroines and Saracens ­ Intersections of race and gender in medieval literature.’ in Medieval World (1991)

‘Women in the crusades’ and ‘Eleanor of Aquitaine’ in Chronicles of the Crusades ed. Elizabeth Hallam, (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1989)

Sarah Lambert (History Department) and Annette Hayton (Widening Participation Coordinator) 'Widening Participation: Targeting the very young’ History in Schools and Higher Education: Issues of Common Concern'.

Conferences

2009 Framing Muslims Research Network Day Workshop - Others Within and Without: Muslims, Jews and European Identity, , School of Oriental and African Studies. ‘Aberrant decoding? Muslims and Jews in the visual and textual polemic of the crusades’

2007 Mid America Medieval Association conference Emporia, Kansas, February 'Crusade and conversion in the popular literature of the middle ages'

2004 International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 'Renard the Fox - or Why NOT go on a crusade'

2002 ‘Women as Prostitutes in the Crusade armies.’ International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

2000 ‘Crusading or Spinning; a Question of Gender Role Definition.’ International Medieval Congress, Leeds University.

1998 ‘Images of Queenship in the Works of William of Tyre.’ International Medieval Congress, Leeds University.

1998 ‘Margaret of Beverly: Not a crusading Saint?’ International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo, Mich USA.

1997 ‘Philip of Novara - law and history’, Institute of Historical Research Early Medieval seminar,.

1996 ‘Attitudes to race and ethnicity in the chronicles of the first crusade’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

1996 ‘Gender and medieval colonialism’, Royal Historical Association Conference, University of York.

1995 ‘The politics of succession in the Latin East.’ At the Kings College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies international conference on medieval queens and queenship. 

1995 ‘Margaret of Beverly: A Woman Traveller in a Crusading context’, Women's History Seminar, Institute of Historical research.

1993 ‘Public or private? What role for the queen in the 12th century?’ at the Anglo - American Conference, Institute of Historical research, University of London.

1993 ‘Women as Aliens in Medieval Culture’ at the King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies day colloquium.