Prof. Justine Firnhaber-Baker in conversation with ILCR director and head of School of History, Prof. Caroline Humfress.

Professor Firnhaber-Baker’s research interests encompass legal, political and institutional history. She has published widely on medieval lordship, women and gender, and power, especially with reference to later medieval France. Publications include Violence and the State in Languedoc, c. 1250-1400 (Cambridge, 2014) and The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasant’s Revolt (Oxford, 2021) as well as her new, critically acclaimed book House of Lillies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France.