- HI 2681: Introduction to European History, 1350 - Present
- HI 3003: Environments in World History I: Antiquity - 1500
- HI 3021: Europe in the Middle Ages
- HI 3452/WS 3410: Women in Medieval Europe, c. 400–c. 1550
- HI 4062: Making History
- HI 4420: Women and Witchcraft
- HI 5000/5900: Senior Seminar
- HI 6540: Topics in European History
- B.A. Medieval Studies, Mount Holyoke College, 2008
- M.A. Medieval Studies, The University of York, 2010
- PhD History, The University of York, 2014
Early medieval English (C9 - C11) diplomatic, law and administration, pre-Conquest English culture and prosopography, Northumbria in the eleventh century, the church in pre-Conquest England, early medieval hagiography, Old English literature, early medieval urban history, historiography, the horse in the ancient and medieval worlds, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Roman Britain and Roman history and literature.
Publications:
- Shields-Más, Chelsea. “Uncovering Women’s Autonomy within England’s Class of Royal Officials: Heregyth, Gænburg, and Wærburh.” Medieval People 40 (2025): 25–57.
- Shields-Más, Chelsea and Charlie Rozier. “The Northern Limits of Norman Power: Border Policies in Northumbria, c.1050–1100.” In Borders and the Norman World. Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe, edited by Daniel Armstrong, Áron Kecskés, Charlie C. Rozier and Leonie V. Hicks, 43–68. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023.
- Shields-Más, Chelsea. “The Sheriffs of Edward the Confessor.” Anglo-Norman Studies 45 (2023): 61–75.
- Shields-Más, Chelsea. “Royal Reeves, Royal Authority and the “Holy Society” in Archbishop Wulfstan’s Writings.” In Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England, edited by Anya Adair and Andrew Rabin, 198–221. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023.
- McMullen, A. Joseph and Chelsea Shields-Más. “Tamar, Widowhood, and the Old English Prose Translation of Genesis.” Anglia 138, Issue 4 (Nov. 2020): 586–617.
Forthcoming:
- Shields-Más, Chelsea. “Domesday’s Humble Equine: The Summarius.” Anglo-Norman Studies 48 (2026)
- Shields-Más, Chelsea, Mary Blanchard, Charlie Rozier and Charlotte Thompson, eds. Status, Rank, or Office. Social Boundaries in England, 900–1200. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2026.
- Shields-Más, Chelsea. The Reeve in Early Medieval England. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer.
2023 Conference papers:
TBD, at “Status, Rank, or Office? Social Boundaries in England, 900–1200” at Durham University, UK, July 8–10.
“Bought loyalty? The reeves of Æthelred II” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 3–6
“Remembering women and their reeves in early medieval England” at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–13.
2022 Conference papers:
“The reeves of Domesday Book” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 4 – 7.
2021 Conference papers:
“Child kings and their royal officials in the tenth century” at the 40th Annual Haskins Society Conference, via Zoom, November 12 – 14.
“The sheriffs of Edward the Confessor” at the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, via Zoom, July 23 – 26.
“Reeves, status and royal service” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, via Zoom, July 5 – 9.
“The role of royal officials and royal authority in Archbishop Wulfstan’s ‘holy society’” at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, via Zoom, May 10 – 15.
“The Northern Limits of Norman Power: Normans in Northumbria, c.1050-1150,” co-authored and presented by Charlie Rozier and Chelsea Shields-Más in “Borders and the Norman World: New Frontiers in Scholarship,” hosted by St. Andrews Institute for Medieval Studies, University of St. Andrews via Zoom, March 25 – 27.
“Eadmer, hagiography and the pre-Conquest past” in the online author workshop, “Eadmer of Canterbury: Life, Manuscripts, History and Thought,” hosted by Durham University, via Zoom, January 7 – 8.
2020 Conference papers:
“The role of royal officials and royal authority in Archbishop Wulfstan’s ‘holy society’” at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7 – 10.
“Reeves, status and royal service” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 6 – 9.
2019 Conference papers:
“Equus, runcinus, palefridus, summarius: the horses of Domesday Book” at the Equine History Conference, Cal Poly Pomona, Nov. 13 – 15.
“Politics and Rebellion in the North, 1066 – 1086” at the 38th Annual Haskins Society Conference, November 8 – 10.
“The reeve vs. the sheriff: the fates of some Anglo-Saxon administrators after the Norman Conquest” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 1 – 4.
“The Making (or un-making) of Eadwig, r. 955 – 959: Bringing a neglected reign into focus”
Round table talk: “’What’s in a Name?’ The Impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon personal names” at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9 – 12.
Round table talks: “…my chief delight has always been in study, teaching, and writing: Engaging students in the study of the early medieval North Atlantic”
“Beyond the Traditional Archive: Using Domesday as an Archive to Construct the Figure of the Reeve, 1066 - 1100” at IONA: Early Medieval Studies on the Islands of the North Atlantic, Simon Fraser University, April 10 – 13.
Selected 2018 Conference papers:
“Archbishop Wulfstan’s campaign for a ‘holy society’: the reeve as shepherd of the Anglo-Saxon people” at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10 – 13.
“The Reeve and Estate Management in Late Anglo-Saxon England” at the 24th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference, Feb. 8 – 10.
Spring 2023 office hours:
Monday/Wednesday, 9:30am – 11:00am and by appointment.