Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mothers and Forced Marriages in the Later Middle Ages in, editor(s)Katherine Scheil and Linda Shenk , Early Modern Improvisations, Abingdon, Routledge, 2024, pp58 - 67, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Ruth Karras, Katherine Pierpont, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others, 4th, Abingdon, Routledge, 2023, 1 - 260pp
Attitudes to Same-Sex Sexual Relations in the Latin World in, editor(s)Hannah Skoda , A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ags, Leeds, Arc Humanities, 2023, pp84 - 101, [Ruth Karras]
Karrras, Ruth Mazo, and Katherine E. Pierpont, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others, 4th, Abingdon (UK), Routledge, 2023, 1 - 260pp
Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery in, editor(s)Damian Pargas, Juliane Schiel , The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History, Palgrave, 2023, pp215 - 224, [Ruth Mazo Karras]
David and Jonathan as a Paradigm of Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literature in, editor(s)Marzena Zawanowska and Mateusz Wilk , The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King,, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp188 - 206, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women in, editor(s)Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen , Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2020, pp21 - 23, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, The regulation of 'Sodomy' in the Latin East and West, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 2020, p969 - 986
Afterword in, editor(s)Natasha R Hodgson, Katherine J Lewis, Matthew Mesley , Crusading and Masculinities, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, pp345 - 355, [Karras, Ruth]
David and Jonathan: A Medieval Bromance. in, editor(s)Ann Marie Rasmussen , Rivalrous Masculinities, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Notre Dame University Press, 2019, pp151 - 173, [Ruth Karras]
David and Bathsheba: Masculine Sexuality in Medieval Judaism and Christianity in, editor(s)Daniel Gerster and Michael Kruggeler , God's Own Gender? Masculinities in World Religions, Baden-Baden, Ergon Verlag, 2018, pp201 - 218, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others, 3rd, Abington, Routledge, 2017
Baumgarten, Elisheva; Karras, Ruth Mazo; Mesler, Katelyn, Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Transmission in Medieval Jewish Culture, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies" , Journal of the Haskins Society , 28 , 2016, p83 - 100
"John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited" in, editor(s)Doggett, Laine E.; O'Sullivan, Daniel E. , Founding Feminisms: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns, Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S. Brewer, 2016, pp111-121 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo; Linkinen, Tom]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Telling the Truth about Sex in Late Medieval Paris", Reading Medieval Studies , 20, 2014, p67 - 81
"The Christianization of Medieval Marriage" in, editor(s)Wolverton, Lisa; Mengel, David , Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages, Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 2014, pp1-24 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"The Wife of Bath" in, editor(s)Rigby, Stephen; Minnis, Alastair , Historians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp319-333 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Clergé, mariage et masculinité au Moyen Âge" in, editor(s)Sohn, Anne-Marie , Une histoire sans les hommes est-elle possible? , Lyon, ENS Editions, 2013, pp109-120 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Aerial Battle in the Toledot Yeshu and Sodomy in the Later Middle Ages" , Medieval Encounters , 19, 2013, p493 - 533
"Marriage: Medieval Couples and the Uses of Tradition" in, editor(s)Chazelle, Celia; Doubleday, Simon; Lifshitz, Felice; Remensnyder, Amyz, and Amy G. Remensnyder , in Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice , Abington, Routledge, 2012, pp54-65 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in Medieval Europe , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Regulation of Sexuality in the Late Middle Ages: England and France", Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies , 86 , 2011, p1010 - 1039
Vann Sprecher, Tiffany; Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Midwife and the Church: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Midwives in Brie, 1499-1504", Bulletin of the History of Medicine , 85, 2011, p171 - 192
Bradley, Cameron; Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Masculine Sexuality and a Double Standard in Early Thirteenth-Century Flanders?" , Leidschrift , 25, 2010, p63 - 77
"The Sexual Body" in, editor(s)Kalof, Linda , in A Cultural History of the Human Body In the Medieval Age, Oxford, Berg, 2010, pp59-75 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo; Murray, Jacqueline]
Karras, Ruth Mazo; Kaye, Joel B.; Matter, E. Ann, Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
"Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law" in, editor(s)Karras, Ruth Mazo, Kaye, Joel, and Matter, E. Ann , in Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe., Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, pp117-129 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Thomas Aquinas's Chastity Belt: Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe" in, editor(s)Bitel, Lisa; Lifshitz, Felice , in Gender & Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, pp52-67 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomy" in, editor(s)Kuefler, Matthew , The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006, pp273-286 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The History of Marriage and the Myth of Friedelehe" Early Medieval Europe 14 (2006), 119-151, Early Medieval Europe , 14, 2006, p119 - 151
"The Lechery That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sodomy and the Vices in Medieval England" in, Newhauser, Richard , In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2005, pp193-205 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Christina's Tempting" in, editor(s)Fanous, Samuel, and Henrietta Leyser , Christina of Markyate, Abington, Routledge, 2004, [Staples, Kathryn Kelsey, and Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"'This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised': Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages" in, editor(s)Burns, E. Jane , in Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings, ed. E. Jane Burns (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 89-104., New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp89-104 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Using Women to Think With in the Medieval University in, editor(s)Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. , Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe 1200-1550, Turnhout, Brepols, 2004, pp21-33 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Women's Labors: Reproduction and Sex Work in Medieval Europe", Journal of Women's History, 15, (4), 2004, p153 - 158
Karras, Ruth Mazo, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003
"'Because the other is a poor woman, she shall be called his wench': Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England" in, editor(s)Farmer, Sharon; Pasternack, Carol Braun , Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp210-29 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Marriage and the Creation of Kin in the Sagas" , Scandinavian Studies, 4, 2003, p473 - 490
"Young Knights Under the Feminine Gaze" in, editor(s)Eisenbichler, Konrad , The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650, Toronto, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002, pp190-205 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Active/Passive, Acts/Passions: Greek and Roman Sexualities" , American Historical Review , 4, 2000, p1250-65.
"Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University" in, editor(s)Murray, Jacqueline , Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, New York, Garland, 1999, pp189-214 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Sex and the Singlewoman" in, editor(s)Bennett, Judith;Froide, Amy , Singlewomen in the European Past, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, pp127-45 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Prostitution as Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe", Journal of Women's History, 11, (2), 1999, p159-77
"Leccherous Songys: Medieval Sexuality in Word and Deed" in, editor(s)Ziolkowski, Jan , Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages, Leiden, Brill, 1998, pp233-45 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"God and Man in Medieval Iceland: Writing Women Out of Conversion History" in, editor(s)Muldoon, James , Varieties of Religoius Conversion in the Middle Ages, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1997, pp110-114 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in Medieval European Universities" in, editor(s)Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome; Wheeler, Bonnie , Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, New York, Garland, 1997, pp187-202 - [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture" in, editor(s)Murray, Jacqueline; Eisenbichler, Konrad , Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996, pp201-16 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Ut Cum Muliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London" in, editor(s)Fradenburg, Louise; Freccero, Carla , Premodern Sexualities, Abington, Routledge, 1996, pp101-116 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo; Boyd, David L. ]
"Prostitution in Medieval Europe" in, editor(s)Bullough, Vern L.; Brundage, James A. , Handbook of Medieval Sexuality: A Book of Essays, New York, Garland, 1996, pp243-60 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Two Models, Two Standards: Moral Teaching and Sexual Mores." in, editor(s)Hanawalt, Barbara A.; Wallace, David , Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp123-38 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996
Boyd, David Lorenzo; Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London" , GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , 1, 1994, p459-65
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Misogyny and the Medieval Exemplum: Gendered Sin in John of Bromyard's Summa Praedicantium" , Traditio, 47 , 1992, p233-57
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Latin Vocabulary of Illicit Sex in English Ecclesiastical Court Records" , Journal of Medieval Latin, 2 , ( ), 1992, p1-17
"Servitude and Sexuality in Medieval Iceland" in, editor(s)Palsson, Gisli, , From Sagas to Society: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland, Enfield Lock, Middlesex, Hisarlik Press, 1992, pp289-304 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Concubinage and Slavery in the Viking Age" , Scandinavian Studies , 62, 1990, p141 62.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend" , Journal of the History of Sexuality , 1 , 1990, p3032
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England" , Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 14 , 1989, p399 433
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia , New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "The Virgin and the Pregnant Abbess: Miracles and Gender in the Middle Ages" , Medieval Perspectives, 3, 1988, p112-132
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Friendship and Love in the Lives of Two Twelfth-Century English Saints" Journal of Medieval History 14 (1988): 305 20, Journal of Medieval History , 14, 1988, p305-20
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Pagan Survivals and Syncretism in the Conversion of Saxony" , Catholic Historical Review, 72 , 1986, p553-572
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Early Twelfth-Century Bohemian Coinage in Light of a Hoard of Vladislav I" , American Numismatic Society Museum Notes , 30, ( ), 1985, p179 210.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Seventh-Century Jewellery from Frisia: A Re-Examination" , Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History , 4 , 1985, p159-177
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Perfect Men? The Nine Worthies and Medieval Masculinities: The Sophus Bugge Memorial Lecture 2019, Collegium Medievale, 30, 2020, p5 - 22
Love, Sex, and Sexuality in, editor(s)Joanne Ferraro, Frederik Pedersen , A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp115 - 129, [Ruth Mazo Karras]
"Sexuality in Medieval Europe" in, editor(s)Linehan, Peter; Nelson, Janet; Costambeys, Marios , The Medieval World 2d ed, Abington, Routledge, 2018, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"The Reproduction of Medieval Christianity" in, editor(s)Thatcher, Adrian , The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Christian Theology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp271 - 286, [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Bennett, Judith M,; Karras, Ruth Mazo, The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013
"Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians" in, editor(s)Bennett, Judith; Karras, Ruth Mazo , The Oxford Handbook of Women & Gender in Medieval Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp1-17 , [Bennett, Judith M; Karras, Ruth Mazo]
"Analyses of Silver Content in a Hoard of Twelfth-Century Bohemian Pennies" in, editor(s)Oddy, W.A.; Archibald, M.M. , in Metallurgy in Numismatics II, London, British Museum Publications, 1988, pp81-86 , [Karras, Ruth Mazo]
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
President, Medieval Academy of America, 2019-20; First Vice-President, 2018-19; Second Vice-President, 2017-18; Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Harassment, 2018
General Editor, The Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press
American Historical Review, Editorial Board
President, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Gender and History, North American Co-Editor
Awards and Honours
Donald Bullough Fellowship, St. Andrews Institute for Medieval Studies
EURIAS (European Institutes for Advanced Study) Fellowship
Israel Institute for Advanced Study, invited member
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Fellowship
Joan Kelly Prize in Women's History from American Historical Association, for Unmarriages
Honored as a "Feminist Foremother" by Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
University of Minnesota, Graduate-Professional Teaching Award
University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Dean's Medal
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
University of Minnesota, Distinguished Women Scholars Award in Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
American Philosophical Society, Sabbatical Fellowship
University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Scholar of the College
Rhodes Scholarship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Member
Memberships
Women's History Association of Ireland
Medieval Academy of America
American Historical Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians