Zubin Mistry

Zubin Mistry has been a Lecturer in Early Medieval History in 2017 and is one of the Co-ordinators of the Histories of Gender and Sexuality research group in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.  Zubin is a historian of early medieval Europe between 500 and 1000 CE whose work focuses particularly on reproduction in relation to:

• Medical practice
• Religious beliefs
• Legal regimes 
• Political culture. 

Extending a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project (Handling Infertility in Carolingian Europe) originally focussed on infertility in the ninth century, his current research examines how people thought about and responded to childlessness and reproductive problems in early medieval societies, and the gendered repercussions of reproductive problems on women's and men's lives; and uses reproduction as a way of re-thinking medical knowledge and practice, which remains pretty murky before c.1200.  Zubin’s outputs include:

• Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, c.500-900 (Woodbridge, 2015) 
• ‘The body', in Elaine Pereira-Farrell and Rob Meens (eds), Penitential Books of the Middle Ages (Leiden, forthcoming) 
• 'Review essay: Infertility in history and the history of reproduction', Gender & History 32.3 (2020), 657-75
• With Rosemary Elliot, 'Introduction: Gender and reproduction', Gender & History 32.3 (2020), 509-22
• 'Ermentrude's consecration (866): Queen-making rites and biblical templates for Carolingian fertility', Early Medieval Europe 27.4 (2019), 567-88
• 'The sexual shame of the chaste: Abortion miracles in early medieval saints' lives', Gender & History 25.3 (2013), 607-20