Heather Tanner

Heather Tanner's academic work explores how noble and royal women and men exercised power in northern France, Belgium, and England from the tenth to mid-thirteenth centuries, with interests in lordship, feudalism, law, administration, emotions, and rituals. She is the author of Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in northern France and England c. 879–1160 and Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260. She has published seventeen articles and book chapters, edited Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and given over thirty-five conference presentations.