Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh

Research Projects

• Civilisation, Power and Knowledge in early modern East Kent: an analysis of discourse and transgression of social and cultural practice in the Cinque Ports c.1600-c.1640. Researcher(s): Mr Jason Mazzocchi. Supervisor(s): Dr Dave Hitchcock, Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Different Voices: Parochial Charity in the Medway Valley 1660 - 1840. Researcher(s): Mr Peter Joyce. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Claire Bartram. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Disputes, Peace-Making and Social Negotiation in Late Medieval England: A Case Study of Faversham and its Religious Institutions. Researcher(s): Miss Christine Brandl. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Maria Diemling. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Lily Hawker-Yates. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Lesley Hardy. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Kent's maritime communities and their European neighbours: connections and relations across the Narrow Seas, c.1350-c.1600. Researcher(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Project]
• Medieval Animals Heritage Project for East Kent. Researcher(s): Dr Diane Heath, Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Project]
• Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2022. Researcher(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Project]
• Medieval Canterbury Weekend 2024. Researcher(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Project]
• PIETY, PATRONAGE AND PROPERTY-HOLDING: WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CANTERBURY AND ITS HINTERLAND, c.1150–c.1300. Researcher(s): Ms Tracey Dessoy. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Astrid Stilma, Professor Thomas Hennessey. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• St Thomas Becket in Late Medieval England: Laurence Wade’s ‘Life of Becket’ and its place in English History and Literature, 1450-1530. Researcher(s): Mr Michael Byrne. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Claire Bartram. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Community of Pluckley.1500-1650: People, Place and Belonging.. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Emotional Life of the Poor in England between 1600 and 1800: How did the poor cope with poverty?. Researcher(s): Mrs Elizabeth Burton. Supervisor(s): Dr Dave Hitchcock, Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Hunting Areas of Tonbridge: their creation, use and break-up, c.1250 - c.1700.. Researcher(s): Mrs Maureen McLeod. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Claire Bartram. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The suppression of several of Kent’s monastic houses during Cardinal Wolsey’s asset-stripping ‘Little Dissolution’ (1520s). A critical study of three religious houses: Tonbridge, Bayham and Lesnes.. Researcher(s): Mrs Jane Richardson. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Claire Bartram. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The use and development of the Maison Dieu, Dover and its significance to the crown, port and local community 1450-1606.. Researcher(s): Ms Kieron Hoyle. Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Dr Claire Bartram. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Tudors and Stuarts 2023. Researcher(s): Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh. [Project]

• Rethinking the medieval pig in England: From woodland animal to bagpipe-playing sow Sweetinburgh, S., Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone. [Book chapter]
• Starting a new life as artisans and traders in Ricardian and Henrician Canterbury (c.1400 and c.1500) Sweetinburgh, S., (30 Jun 2022): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• "Ready for to go to the sea": maintaining fishing families in Late Medieval Hythe Sweetinburgh, S., (Oct 2021), Maritime Kent Through The Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• 'Dost thou know Dover?' : Locating Dover in the early modern literary imagination c.1500-1660 Bartram, C., (Oct 2021), Maritime Kent Through the Ages: Gateway to the Sea. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• ‘Fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting’: Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam Oulton, C., (Oct 2021), Maritime Kent Through the Ages: Gateway to the Sea: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• More continuity than change: Kent's Tudor almshouses Sweetinburgh, S., (2021): Southern History Society. [Journal article]
• Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England, by Anne Thompson Sweetinburgh, Sheila, (27 Feb 2021, 17 Jun 2021): Oxford University Press. [Journal article]
• Community care: civic charitable institutions in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1300-c.1500 Sweetinburgh, S., (Jun 2020): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• 'Writing the town in mid-fifteenth-century Sandwich: the contribution of John Serle, common clerk' Sweetinburgh, S., Kentish Book Culture: Writing and reading in the Provinces 1400-1660: Peter Lang. [Book chapter]
• Fishermen and their families in late medieval and Tudor Kent Sweetinburgh, S., The Routledge Research Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800: Oceans in Global History and Culture: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Neighbours across the religious divide: coping with difference in Henrician Kent Sweetinburgh, S., The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• Religious women in the landscape: their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland Sweetinburgh, S., (15 Nov 2018), Gender: Places, Spaces and Thresholds. London: Institute of Historical Research. [Book chapter]
• Shepsters, Hucksters and other Businesswomen: female involvement in Canterbury's fifteenth-century economy Sweetinburgh, S., (01 Jul 2017): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• Those who marched with Faunt: reconstructing the Canterbury rebels of 1471 Sweetinburgh, S., (Dec 2017): Southern History Society. [Journal article]
• Early medieval Kent, 800-1220, (2016). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book]
• Farming the Kentish marshlands: continuity and change in the late Middle Ages Sweetinburgh, S., (Feb 2016), Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. [Book chapter]
• Looking to the past: the St Thomas Pageant in early Tudor Canterbury Sweetinburgh, S., (Jun 2016): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• A tale of two mazers: negotiating relationships at Kentish medieval hospitals' Sweetinburgh, S., (Jun 2015): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• The economic impact of the Reformation on two Canterbury parishes Sweetinburgh, S., (2015), Views from the Parish: Churchwardens' Accounts c.1500-c.1800. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Book chapter]
• Placing the hospital: the production of St Lawrence's hospital registers in fifteenth-century Canterbury Sweetinburgh, S., (2014), The Fifteenth Century XIII: Exploring the Evidence: Commemoration, Administration and the Economy. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• To move the mind: scenes from Christ's life on Faversham's painted pillar Sweetinburgh, S., (2014), Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe. Turnhout: Brepols. [Book chapter]
• What's in a name? Exploring the use of 'Creature' as a Christian name in early modern Kent Sweetinburgh, S., Craig-Mair, V., (2014): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• ''With the consent of the towne, and other skillfull marryners and gentlemen': An examination of textual negotiations in the Elizabethan restoration of Dover Harbour 1582-1605. Bartram, C., Dixon, M., Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-1600: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. [Book chapter]
• 'With the consent of the towne, and other skillfull marryners and gentlemen': an examination of textual negotiations in the Elizabethan restoration of Dover Harbour 1582-1605 Bartram, C., Dixon, M., (2013), Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-1600. Tempe, Arizona, USA: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. [Book chapter]
• Canterbury's martyred archbishop: the 'cult' of Simon Sudbury and relations between city and cathedral Sweetinburgh, S., (2013), Monuments and Monumentality across Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Donington: Shaun Tyas. [Book chapter]
• Discord in the public arena: processes and meanings of the St Bartholomew's day festivities in early sixteenth-century Sandwich Sweetinburgh, S., (2013), Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-c.1600. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS and Brepols. [Book chapter]
• Pilgrimage in 'an Age of Plague': Seeking Canterbury's 'hooly blisful martir' in 1420 and 1470 Sweetinburgh, S., (2013), The Fifteenth Century XII: Society in an Age of Plague. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• Anglo-Saxon saints and a Norman archbishop: 'imaginative memory' and institutional identity at St Gregory's Priory, Canterbury Sweetinburgh, S., (2012), The Regular Canons in the Medieval British Isles. Turnhout: Brepols. [Book chapter]
• Caught in the cross-fire: patronage and institutional politics in late twelfth-century Canterbury Sweetinburgh, S., (2011), Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• Hythe's butcher-graziers: townsmen in the late medieval English countryside Sweetinburgh, S., (2011), New Directions in Local History since Hoskins. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. [Book chapter]
• The social structure of New Romney as revealed in the 1381 Poll Tax returns Sweetinburgh, S., (2011): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• 'My painted chamber' and other rooms: Stephen Hulkes and the history of Calico House, Newnham Sweetinburgh, S., Austin, R., (2010): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• Kentish hospitals during the late Middle Ages Sweetinburgh, S., (2010), Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• Kentish towns: urban culture and the parish in later medieval Kent Sweetinburgh, S., (2010), Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• Overcoming disaster? Farming practices on Christ Church Priory's marshland manors in the early 14th century Sweetinburgh, S., (2010), Romney Marsh: Persistence and Change in a Coastal Lowland. Sevenoaks: Romney Marsh Research Trust. [Book chapter]
• Remembering the dead at dinner-time Sweetinburgh, S., (2010), Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• Eternal town servants: civic elections and the Stuppeny tombs of New Romney and Lydd Sweetinburgh, S., (2009), Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols. [Book chapter]
• The Austin Friars in late medieval Canterbury: negotiating spaces Sweetinburgh, S., (2008), Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• Royal patrons and local benefactors: the experiences of the hospitals of St Mary at Ospringe and Dover in the thirteenth century Sweetinburgh, S., (2007), Religious and Laity in Western Europe 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power. Turnhout: Brepols. [Book chapter]
• The poor, hospitals and charity in sixteenth-century Canterbury Sweetinburgh, S., (2007), Pieties in Transition: Religious Practices and Experiences c.1400-1640. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• Mayor-making and other ceremonies: shared uses of sacred space among the Kentish Cinque Ports Sweetinburgh, S., (2006), The Use and Abuse of Sacred Places in Late Medieval Towns. Leuvan: Leuven University Press. [Book chapter]
• Strategies of inheritance among Kentish fishing communities in the later Middle Ages Sweetinburgh, S., (2006, Jan 2012): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• The Archangel Gabriel's stone and other relics: William Haute's serach for salvation in fifteenth-century Kent Sweetinburgh, S., (2006): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• Clothing the naked in late medieval Kent Sweetinburgh, S., (2004), Clothing Culture, 1300-1600. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• The role of the hospital in medieval England: gift-giving and the spiritual economy Sweetinburgh, S., (2004). Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Book]
• Wax, stone and iron: Dover's town defences in the later Middle Ages Sweetinburgh, S., (2004): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• Joining the sisters: female inmates in the late medieval hospitals of east Kent Sweetinburgh, S., (2003): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]
• Supporting the Canterbury hospitals: benefaction and the language of charity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Sweetinburgh, S., (2002): Kent Archaeological Society. [Journal article]