I am myn owene woman, wel at ese: In Memory of Margaret Jennings

This booklet is devoted to the memory of Margaret Jennings (1942-2016),

a distinguished medievalist who devoted much of her scholarly work to

the fourteenth-century Benedictine Ranulph Higden and his writings. The

booklet offers reminiscences by some of Professor Jennings’s closest

friends and colleagues, including her husband, Francis P. Kilcoyne. The

brief essays reveal a remarkable woman, who was not only a fine scholar,

but poured her soul into many activities benefiting other people,

whether these were the generations of students she joyfully taught at

St. Joseph’s College or parolees in Brooklyn whom she helped get their

lives together.

Included in this booklet, as well, is a reprint of one of Professor

Jennings’s most intriguing articles, in which she reconstructs the

scandalous conditions that prevailed at St. Werburgh’s Abbey in the

fourteenth century. Her complete bibliography rounds off this

commemorative publication.