Lyndan Warner
Profile
Professor
B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Email: lyndan.warner@smu.ca
Office: McNally North 230
Dr. Warner held posts at the University of Exeter, UK, the University of Warwick, UK and the University of Waikato, New Zealand before arriving to ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ in 1998. She received her Ph.D from the University of Cambridge.
A specialist in Print Culture, the History of the Family and the History of Ideas, Warner's research on stepfamilies has focused on Europe between 1400 and 1900. A recent project, Kinship Riddles, explored legal and visual sources of family relationship puzzles in England and the Netherlands.
Her new book, co-edited with Gabriella Erdélyi, Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900 will be published in 2024.
Selected Publications
Books
Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 (London and New York: Routledge 2018, , 11 contributors from Europe, the USA and Canada, 19 illustrations, 9 family tree line drawings, 2 tables, 13 chapters covering England, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy & Spain.
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France: Print, Rhetoric and Law(Aldershot, UK and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2011) Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series, .
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Longman, 1999) Co-edited with Sandra Cavallo, .
Peer-Reviewed Journal Special Issue
Lyndan Warner & Gabriella Erdélyi, Guest editors, Special issue ‘Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900’. History of the Family: An International Quarterly, 27/3 (2022), 8 articles, 10 contributors
Lyndan Warner & Gabriella Erdélyi (2022). ‘Introduction: Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900’. History of the Family: An International Quarterly, Special issue ‘Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900’, 27/3 (2022): 411-433 DOI: (non-refereed)
Essays and Articles
‘Kinship Riddles’ Genealogy 6/2: 43 (2022) Open access. 18 Illustrations
‘Family, Kin and Friendship’ in Amanda Capern, ed., The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2019), chapter 2.
Co-authored with Grace E. Coolidge, ‘Evolving Families: Realities and Images of Stepfamilies, Remarriage, and Half-siblings in Early Modern Spain’, in Merry Wiesner-Hanks, ed., Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World (Amsterdam University Press, 2018)
‘Seeing Stepfamilies in European Visual Culture’ and ‘Appendix: Visual Sources of the Stepfamily in the European Past, 1400-1800’, in Lyndan Warner, Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 204-232
'Stepfamilies in Early Modern Europe: Paths of Historical Inquiry' History Compass, 14/10 (2016): 480–492. doi: .
'Before the Law', in Allyson Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine McIver, eds, (Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2013), 233-56.
'Remembering the Mother, Presenting the Stepmother: Portraits of the Early Modern Family in Northern Europe', Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6 (2011), 93-125, includes 7 illustrations
'Les plaidoiries et leurs reflets littéraires au XVIe siècle en France', in Richard Crescenzo, Marie Roig-Miranda, Véronique Zaercher, ed, Le mariage dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: réalités et représentations, 2 vols, (Nancy: Groupe 'XVIe et XVII siècles en Europe, Université Nancy II, 2003), vol. II, 261-70
Recent Presentations & Invited Talks
2022 • ‘Stepmothers and stepfathers in premodern Europe’, Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000–1800, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK, 23 April 20222019 • ‘Kinship Riddles’, Renaissance Society of America conference, Toronto, Canada, March 17-19, 2019
2021 • ‘William Cecil and Kinship Riddles: an exploration of visual sources of family relationship puzzles’, Lord Burghley 500 conference, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 18-19 September 2020. Postponed by COVID 19, 21 September 2021
2021 • ‘Stepfamilies in northern France and the southern Low Countries c. 1500s-1600s’ in Stepfamilies across Cultures and Religions panel II, European Social Science and History (ESSHC) conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 17-21 March 2020. Postponed by COVID, 27 March 2021
2019 • ‘Kinship Riddles’, Renaissance Society of America conference, Toronto, Canada, March 17-19, 2019
2018 • ‘Evolving Families: Realities and Images of Stepfamilies, Remarriage, and Half-siblings in Early Modern Spain’, European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) co-presenter with Grace E. Coolidge, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, 7 April 2018.
2017 • ‘Stepfamilies in European Visual Culture, 1400s to 1600s’, Plenary lecture, Fifth Annual Conference of the Early Modern, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10 March 2017
2016 • 'Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400–1800’, European Social Science History Conference, Session Organizer, Chair, and Commentator, Valencia, Spain, 2 April 2016
2015 • 'Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400–1800', Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Organizer, Chair, and Commentator, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 24 October 2015
2015 • 'Workshop IV, 35: Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800', Attending to Early Modern Women, Milwaukee, WI, USA, with Professor Grace Coolidge of Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA, 20 June 2015
2015 • ‘The Conservation Movement in Europe and the New World’, public lecture, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai (BNUZ), China, 8 June 2015
2015 • ‘From the Renaissance Self-portrait to the Selfie’, public lecture, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai (BNUZ), China, 25 May 2015
2014 • ‘Stepfamilies and Legal Entanglements in Northern France and the Southern Low Countries c. 1500s-1600s’, Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto, Canada, 23 May 2014
2014 • ‘Half-siblings in Early Modern France and the Low Countries’ presentation, ‘Half-siblings and Complex Families in Early Modern Europe’ panel, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, 26 April 2014
2013 • ‘Saint Anne’s Holy Blended Family?’, Early Modern Women: New Perspectives – Twentieth Biennial Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium, University of Miami, USA, 21 -23 February 2013
2011 • 'Lawyers, Literature and the Printed Pleading', The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature conference, Athens, Greece, 5-8 May 2011
2010 • 'The Stepmother and Stepfather in Early Modern France and Neighbouring Regions', Sixteenth Century Studies Conference , Montreal, Canada, 17 October 2010
2009 • ‘The Formation of Stepfamilies in Early Modern France '‘From Broken Families to Stepfamilies' panel , Sixteenth Century Studies Conference , Geneva, Switzerland, 28-30 May 2009
2008 • ‘The Place of the Stepmother in the Early Modern Family Portrait' Australian Historical Association ‘Locating History' conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, 8 July 2008
2008 • ‘The Stepmother in Early Modern Europe' Discipline of History Seminar Series , University of Adelaide, Australia, 12 May 2008
Current Courses
- Introduction to Art History, 2nd yr course, hybrid
- Environmental History of Europe, 2nd year course, campus and online
- History of Media and Communications in Europe, 2nd year course
- History of Childhood, 3rd year course
- History of the Body, Health and Sexualities, 3rd year course, campus and online
- The Renaissance in Europe, 3rd year course