Sarah Hamilton is a British historian and the associate dean for education at the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

. Hamilton's research relates to the religious, social and

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

of early

medieval Europe In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...

from c. 900 to c. 1200, medieval

liturgy Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembra ...

and ritual, bishops, the delivery of

pastoral care ''The Book of Pastoral Rule'' (Latin: ''Liber Regulae Pastoralis'', ''Regula Pastoralis'' or ''Cura Pastoralis'' — sometimes translated into English ''Pastoral Care'') is a treatise on the responsibilities of the clergy written by Pope Greg ...

, penance,

excommunication Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in Koinonia, communion with other members o ...

and heresy.Professor Sarah Hamilton Biography.
University of Exeter. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

Selected publications

*''Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200'', Pearson, Harlow, 2013. *''Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250'', Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2006. (with J.C. Crick & D. Bates) *''Defining the holy: sacred space in medieval and early modern Europe'',

Ashgate Publishing Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom). It was established in 1967 and specialised in the social sciences, arts, humanities and professional practice. It had an American office in ...

, Aldershot, 2005. (with A. Spicer) *''The practice of penance, 900-1050'', Boydell and Brewer, 2001.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Exeter Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of London {{England-historian-stub