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BA (Hons), D.E.A.
Université
François-Rabelais,
PhD W.Aust
Rm: 1.04, Arts Building
Tel: 61 08 6488 2139
Fax: 61 08 6488 1069
Email: broomhal@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Teaching & Research
Interests
Late medieval and early modern European history; specifically
the history of women, gender and masculinities, science, medicine
and technologies, religious change, poverty, crime, and work;
approaches drawn from feminist, social, intellectual, spatial,
cultural theories and histories. Educational tourism, e-research
and humanities knowledge transfer.
Recent Publications
Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade in
Sixteenth-Century France,
Ashgate, 2002.
Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern
France,
Manchester University Press, 2004.
Mesdames du Verger, Le Verger Fertile des Vertus (1595)
(eds) Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn, Honore Champion, 2004.
Susan Broomhall, Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century
France, Palgrave,
2005.
Les femmes et l'histoire familiale (XVI-XVIIe siecles):
Descrittione della vita et morte del Sig Michele Burlamachi
(1623). Genealogie de Messieurs du Laurens (1631). (eds)
Susan Broomhall and Colette H. Winn, Honore Champion, 2008.
Susan Broomhall (ed.) Emotions in the Household,
1200-1900, Palgrave,
2008.
Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall (eds), Women, Identities
and Communities in Early Modern Europe,
Ashgate, 2008.
Full publication list.
Current Research Projects
"Gender and Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland" Team
leaders: David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall (UWA) Associated
researchers: Joanne McEwan (UWA) and Iain Hutchison
(Stirling)
"Governing Masculinities: Regulating Selves and Others in the
Early Modern Period" Team leader: Susan Broomhall
"History of Policing and Masculinities, 1500-2000" Team leaders:
David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall (UWA)
"Reading the signs: Disaster, apocalypse and demonology in
European print culture, 1450-1700" Australian Research Council
Discovery Grant, 2009-2012.
CI1 Charles Zika (Melbourne),
CI2 Susan Broomhall (UWA), APD Jenny Spinks (Melbourne)
"Student Exchange as Experiential Learning" UWA Faculty
Learning and Teaching Grant, 2009-2010. Team leaders: Martin
Forsey and Susan Broomhall (UWA), Associated researcher: Jane
Davis (UWA)
"Articulating Lifelong Learning in Tourism Education: Dialogue
between Humanities Scholars and Travel Providers", Australian
Learning and Teaching Council Competitive Grant, 2007-9. Team
leaders: Susan Broomhall (UWA), Tim Pitman (Curtin/UWA),
Associated researchers: Elzbieta Majocha (UWA), Joanne McEwan
(UWA). Click here to visit
the project web portal.
"An interdisciplinary framework for place-based research and
its impact on the tourist industry" Australian Research Council
Linkage Grant, 2007-2009. Susan Broomhall, Jeff
Malpas (UTas), Joan Barclay Lloyd (La Trobe) and John Griffiths
(Melbourne), Chris Wood (Australians Studying Abroad).
Full research list
Students currently supervised
Karl Birkelbach, The Plague Debate: Turning points in the
historiography
A study which investigates the shifting interpretations of the
Black Death's diagnosis, focussing particularly on medical and
historical literature of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.
Ildy Button, The double paradox: nature and gender.
Epistemology and allegory as response to these problems in the
work of three 12th century writers.
Lisa Elliott, Poor Relief and the Hotel-Dieu in
sixteenth-century Paris
This thesis analyses the role the Hotel-Dieu of Paris played in
administering poor relief in the sixteenth century. As well as
looking at how the Hotel-Dieu operated in relation to the Grand
Bureau, I wish to examine the rhetoric used in reference to the
poor and examine how changing views of the poor influenced their
treatment by the administrators of the Hotel-Dieu. The research
will situate Paris in the context of a wider study of urban poor
relief measures (Broomhall, ARC, 2006-8).
Alicia Marchant, Contested Spaces: Owain Glyndŵr
and the Poetics of Chronicling 1400 to c.1550
The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyndŵr was initiated in
1400 and lasted approximately ten years; English historiography
of the Welsh revolt, most particularly the chronicle tradition,
expresses varying views on the man himself and the events around
him. Depictions of Owain Glyndŵr vary from soldier and
hero to villain and demonic magician. This thesis is informed by
the notion that an examination of historiography can provide a
means to understanding social and political groupings.
Recognising the Owain Glyndŵr of the chronicles as a
literary construction (although one based on historical fact)
allows for a reading of the discourses concerning Owain
Glyndŵr as texts in which identities are constructed
and contested. This contextualising of the changing persona of
Owain Glyndŵr leads to a discussion of such themes as
the construction of the individual and individualism, nationhood
and national identity, patronage of individual chroniclers, and
changing notions of historical writing over the period 1400 to
c.1550
Rebecca Martin, Deviant Sexualities in Restoration
England
Ann Minister, Family Strategies and Relationships: the
labouring poor of Derby and south Derbyshire c.1750-1834
This thesis will focus on the ways in which families of the
labouring poor in Derby and three south Derbyshire parishes of
Ticknall, Melbourne and Repton managed their survival during the
period 1750 - 1834. It will use contemporary
sources including trade directories to establish a clear sense of
place in the tradition of English local history. However, despite
being clearly located in the area, the focus of the study will be
those members of the labouring poor who used an 'economy of makeshifts' to enable them to
survive the difficulties of the period. Links between the county
town and the southern parishes will be researched using marriage
registers and Poor Law documents related to the laws of
settlement and removal. It will be asked to what extent crime
played a part in the family economy and it will also question the
use of apprenticeship by the overseers of the poor. Family
relationships will be explored using settlement examinations and
one of the main findings of the study will be to determine, in
the lives of the labouring poor in Derby and south Derbyshire,
what 'family' meant to them and if the 'quality' of their relationships could be
defined in wider terms than simply affection or emotion.
Sandy Riley, Charlotte de la Tremoille, Countess of Derby,
a Cavalier heroine of the English Civil War.
Charlotte de La Tremoille, Countess of Derby, was perceived to be
a significant elite woman during the English Civil War. She was
the central subject of a book published by a middle-ranked
Cavalier officer, in 1644 - highly unusual for a
woman in the seventeenth century. How did contemporaries
understand her impact on the English Civil War? Writers of
history in the nineteenth century also saw her as important,
producing fiction, non-fiction and a travel guide that reinforced
memories of her activities in folklore. Why was Charlotte de La
Tremoille perceived to be of such interest to these authors at
this period? This thesis aims to investigate presentations of
Charlotte's identity in differing social, political and military
contexts, as they are presented by her, by her contemporaries and
by historians, using contemporary documents such as letters,
eye-witness accounts, and pamphlets as well as nineteenth-century
representations.
Lesley Silvester, A longitudinal study of
poor families in early modern Norwich c. 1560-1700
The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate the possibilities
that genealogical sources and methods offer in addressing major
historical research questions. By collecting and analysing
records in a genealogical manner and combining the findings into
a database to carry out a longitudinal study I will explore
social changes over time to expand understanding and contribute
to current historical debate. Firstly, to what extent can these
techniques help to capture and shed new light on the experiences
of the poor, and secondly, can poverty be seen to be inherited
intergenerationally? Where the data allows I will look at
demographic questions of fertility rates, age at marriage and
mortality rates to determine whether there were changes over
time. Family strategies of remarriage, co-residence and unequal
marriage have been revealed by the census. Did these practices
continue over time or develop differently? Can kinship and
community links be demonstrated? Was there a symbiotic
relationship between the poor and the Norwich authorities?
Finally, what was the extent of mobility within and between
parishes?
Scilla Stack, The Education of Vision? Reading Mary
Ward�s mission in Catholicism in her own
lifetime and in the twenty-first century.
In the year of the celebrations for the four-hundredth
anniversary of Mary Ward's founding vision
(1609-2009) in Rome, the aim of this thesis is to merge feminist
historical inquiry with twenty-first-century Catholic feminist
theology and debate to examine boundaries given to shared faith
community and religious authenticity in Catholicism. The study
looks at continuity and change in the place of belief in Catholic
social order. The overarching question of my thesis is why were
Mary Ward's plans for a new open religious order
found to be incommensurable by the papacy in the seventeenth
century, yet lauded in the Holy See today?
R.L. Weston, Medical Consulting by Letter in France, circa
1650-1789
The thesis examines the roles played by physicians and surgeons
in epistolary consultations in France in the 150 years prior to
the Revolution. Analysis of manuscript and printed versions of
consulting letters is used to throw light on the conflict between
the treatment offered and its underlying aetiology and
contemporary developments in physiology, pathology and anatomy.
The rhetoric employed by all parties is examined to see how it
sheds light on the practitioner-patient relationship. Was the
economic and social status of the physician under threat as a
result of a declining credibility in therapeutic outcomes and if
so how did he counter this? How did the centres of Montpellier
and Paris differ in their medical practices as illuminated by the
consulting correspondence?
Memberships
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early
Modern Studies
http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/
Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research
http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/
Societe Internationale pour l'Etude des Femmes de l'Ancien Regime
http://siefar.femmes.free.fr/
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