Since arriving in 2004, Sara Butler has been hard at work creating a niche for Medieval Studies here at Loyola. She has participated in the effort to revive the Medieval Studies minor program, helped to institute a Medieval Film Fest series, co-hosted the Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars Conference (2007), and created GNOMES (Greater New Orleans Medieval Scholars) – a reading group for local medieval scholars. In 2006, she was awarded the Sutherland Prize by the American Society of Legal History for the best article in English legal history for her work entitled, “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England,” an article that appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. In 2007, her book, The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England came out with Brill Academic Publishers.