Margaret Hastings

Margaret Hastings (23 May 1910 – 20 October 1979) was an American historian of Medieval English legal history.

Margaret Hastings
Born(1910-05-23)23 May 1910
Died20 October 1979(1979-10-20) (aged 69)
England
Cause of deathAutomobile accident
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMount Holyoke College (B.A.)
Bryn Mawr College (M.A., Ph.D)
OccupationLegal historian
AwardsLindback Award

Life and work

Margaret Hastings was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 23 May 1910. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1931 and then took her master's degree and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1932 and 1939 respectively. Hastings taught in private schools from 1935 to 1944 and was then a research analyst of the U.S. Army for the rest of the war. She became a lecturer in history at Douglass College, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1946. The following year she wrote the seminal book, The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth Century England. Hastings was promoted to instructor later in 1946, assistant professor in 1949, associate professor in 1952 and professor of history in 1960. She was a contributor to Changing Views on British History in 1966 and wrote Medieval European Society five years later. Hastings was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was the first Douglass College faculty member to receive a Lindback Award. She died in an automobile accident in England on 20 October 1979.[1]

Notes

  1. Scanlon & Cosner, p. 106–07
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References

  • Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29664-2.
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