"I am myn owene woman, wel at ese"

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.