Elizabeth A. R. Brown

Brown received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and A.M. and PhD. from Radcliffe College and Harvard University. In 2009 Elizabeth A. R. Brown was elected the Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America and in 2010–2011 served as its president. She taught at Brooklyn College in New York for decades and taught at Yale and Berkeley after retiring. In her critique, Brown highlights the potential for constructs to influence research agendas and warns constructs that we use to analyze the past can be exclusive. In 1987, Brown was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). She later served as the president of the MAA in 2010–2011. In 2024, she gave a bequest to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries (the Penn Libraries) to establish an archive to hold the papers of medieval historians – including her own collection – and to endow a curator to manage it. ==Works==

Monographs • Customary Aids And Royal Finance in Capetian France: The Marriage Aid of Philip the Fair; (Hardcover, Medieval Academy of Amer) : (0-915651-00-9) • "Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitanians" and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France; (Diane Pub Co.) : (0-87169-827-7) • Jean Du Tillet and the French Wars of Religion: Five Tracts, 1562–1569; (Hardcover, Mrts) : (0-86698-155-1) • The Monarchy of Capetian France and Royal Ceremonial; (Hardcover, Variorum) : (0-86078-279-4) • ''Oxford Collection of the Drawings of Roger De Gaigni'Eres and the Royal Tombs of Saint-Denis''; (Diane Pub. Co. : (0-87169-785-8) • Politics & Institutions in Capetian France; (Ashgate Pub. Co.) : (0-86078-298-0) Articles • • "Taxation and Morality in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Conscience and Political Power and the Kings of France," French Historical Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1973), pp. 1–28. • • "The Ceremonial of Royal Succession in Capetian France: The Funeral of Philip V," Speculum, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr. 1980), pp. 266–293. • • • "Authority, the Family, and the Dead in Late Medieval France," French Historical Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 803–832. • "Philip V, Charles IV, and the Jews of France: The Alleged Expulsion of 1322," Speculum, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr. 1991), pp. 294–329. ==References==