Professor
BA (McGill), PhD (Cambridge)
Email: lyndan.warner@smu.caOffice: McNally North 230Google Scholar profile
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 Saint Mary's in 1998. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge.
A specialist in Print Culture, the History of the Family and the History of Ideas, Warner is currently engaged in research about ‘seeing stepfamilies’ in objects from Europe and overseas – ranging from portraits, funerary monuments, epitaphs, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, embroidery, tapestries and genealogies to popular print and engravings. She continues her legal and archival research on the history of the family, esp. in France and the Southern Low Countries as well as a project on the visual sources of family relationship puzzles in Elizabethan England.
In the autumn of 2024, Lyndan Warner was a Burghley Visiting Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, UK and continues as a member of the college. She has been a visiting scholar at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Budapest, Hungary and the School of History, Archeology & Religion at Cardiff University, UK.
Selected Publications
Books
Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900 (London and New York: Routledge, 2024). https://www.routledge.com/Stepfamilies-across-Europe-and-Overseas-15501900/Warner-Erdlyi/p/book/9781032603308 Co-editor with Gabriella Erdélyi.
Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 (London and New York: Routledge 2018, hardback, paperback, e-book, 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, hardback paperback and ebook.
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Longman, 1999) Co-editor with Sandra Cavallo, hardback, paperback, ebook.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Special IssueLyndan 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:10.1080/1081602X.2022.2101502 (non-refereed)
Essays and Articles
‘Epilogue: a Visual Approach to Stepfamilies’ in Lyndan Warner and Gabriella Erdélyi, eds. Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900 (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), 208–217, 2 illustrations
‘Kinship Riddles’ Genealogy 6/2: 43 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020043 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, 53-76. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355783
‘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) Co-author with Grace E. Coolidge. Open access. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5qdfst.13
‘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: 10.1111/hic3.12339.
'Before the Law', in Allyson Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine McIver, eds, The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (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 https://doi.org/10.1086/EMW23617328
'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
2025 • ‘William Cecil, scribbler’, Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts, FEATHERS conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 7–9 May 20252025 • ‘The material & visual culture of stepfamilies’, Material Culture in the Atlantic Region conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 14-16 May 2025
2025 • ‘William Cecil, genealogist and Elizabethan statesman’, Religion, Ancestry, and Identity: on the Relationship between Theology, Genealogy, and Heraldry in the Early Modern Period conference, Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany, 3-4 April 2025
2025 • ‘Storymapping the visual culture of the stepfamily in Europe’, panel: The Visual Representation of Stepfamilies’, European Social Science and History conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 26 March 20252024 • ‘William Cecil and the visual culture of stepfamilies’, Fellows’ Lecture, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK
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 20222021 • ‘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. Postponed by COVID 19, 21 September 20212021 • ‘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, 20192018 • ‘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
Current Courses
HIST 1000 Making History: The Right to Vote, 1st year course, campus
HIST 2200 History of Media & Communications in Europe, 2nd year course, online asynchronous & also hybrid [online with field trips]*
HIST 2201 Environmental History of Europe, 2nd year course, campus and online asynchronous**
HIST 2203 History of Childhood, 3rd year course, campus
HIST 2205 Introduction to Art History, 2nd year course, hybrid [online with field trips]*
HIST 3203 History of the Body, Health & Sexualities, 3rd year course, campus & online asynchronous
HIST 3205 History of Women Artists, 3rd year course, hybrid [online with field trips]* and *** (IPHH 3205 and WGSS 3205)
HIST 3406 The Renaissance in Europe, 3rd year course, campus*
* Interdisciplinary major in Public Humanities & Heritage (IPHH) credit
** Environmental Studies (BEST) & Environmental Science (ENVS) credit
*** Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies credit (WGSS)