Brian Patrick McGuire

Brian Patrick McGuire (born November 2, 1946 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) is an American- Danish emeritus professor of history, lecturer and author.

Life

He is the son of the San Francisco 49ers ' sports writer and advertising director , Dan Francis McGuire (1917–1983) and high school teacher Phyllis Evelyn Goemmer (1916–2009), the fourth of nine children. He married Ann Kirstin Pedersen (* 1947) on January 3, 1970 and in 1980 adopted Christian Sung Dan Pedersen from Korea.

McGuire received a BA in History and Latin from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968 , with the highest grade point average in his senior year. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Balliol College of Oxford University , where he by Richard Southern was supervised and 1971 he received a D.Phil. in the history. In 1970 he was a tutor in The great books of Western civilization at St. John's College (Annapolis / Santa Fe) .

McGuire emigrated to Denmark in 1971 and worked for an electronics company. He moved to the Department of History at the University of Copenhagen, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 1972–74 .

Eventually, McGuire became a Danish citizen in 1976. From 1975 to 1996 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Greek and Latin at the University of Copenhagen . In 1996 McGuire moved to Roskilde University as Professor of Medieval History . He has been professor emeritus in history since 2012.

McGuire was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011 . Together with his wife Ann Pedersen he founded the Jyderup flygtningevenner in 1985 and was the spokesman for the National Association of Danish Refugee Friends from 1986 to 1995. In 1987 he received the PH award (in memory of the architect and cultural critic Poul Henningsen ) and in 1993 the annual award of the Association for Legal Policy ("Retsolitisk Forening")

His academic focus is on the history of the Cistercians in Denmark, everyday life, friendship and spirituality of the Cistercians, Danish and European identities in the Middle Ages and the history of prayer.

Fonts (selection)

• Conflict and continuity at Øm Abbey. A Cistercian experience in medieval Denmark (= Opuscula Graecolatina. Volume 8). Tusculanum Museum, Copenhagen 1976, OCLC 732129390 .
• The Cistercians in Denmark. Their attitudes, roles, and functions in medieval society (= Cistercian studies series. Volume 35). Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo 1982, ISBN 0-87907-835-9 .
• as editor: Mennesker i Danmarks og Europa middelalder . Reitzel, Copenhagen 1986, ISBN 87-7421-492-6 .
• as editor: War and peace in the Middle Ages . Reitzel, Copenhagen 1987, ISBN 87-7421-549-3 .
• Friendship & community. The monastic experience 350 - 1250 (= Cistercian studies series. Volume 95). Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo 1988, ISBN 0-87907-895-2 .
  • Friendship & community. The monastic experience 350 - 1250 . Cornell University Press, Ithaca et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-8014-7672-3 .
• as editor: Autoritet i middelalderen . Reitzel, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-7421-700-3 .
• The difficult saint. Bernard of Clairvaux and his tradition (= Cistercian studies series. Volume 126). Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo 1991, ISBN 0-87907-626-7 .
• Holy women and monks in the thirteenth century (= Peregrina papers series. Volume 4). Peregrina Publishing Company, Toronto 1992, ISBN 0920669204 .
  • Holy women and monks in the thirteenth century (= Peregrina papers series. Volume 4). 3rd edition, Peregrina Publishing Company, Toronto 1999, ISBN 0920669204 .
• A Guide to medieval Denmark. Guide til middelalderens Danmark . Reitzel, Copenhagen 1994, ISBN 87-7421-869-7 .
• Brother and lover. Aelred of Rievaulx . Crossroad, New York 1994, ISBN 0-8245-1402-5 .
• as editor: The birth of identities. Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages. Contains revised contributions to the Conference “The Birth of Europe: Danish and European Identity in the Middle Ages”, held at Copenhagen University in August 1995 . Reitzel, Copenhagen 1996, ISBN 87-7876-012-7 .
• as translator: Jean Gerson. Early works (= Classics of Western Spirituality . Volume 92). Paulist Press, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8091-0498-9 .
• with Kim Esmark: 1000 - 1300 (= Tusen år i Europa. Volume 1). Historiska Media, Lund 2000, ISBN 91-88930-58-0 .
• Friendship and faith. Cistercian men, women, and their stories 1100-1250 (= Variorum collected studies series. Volume 742). Ashgate, Aldershot 2002, ISBN 0-86078-892-X .
• Jean Gerson and the last Medieval Reformation . Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2005, ISBN 0-271-02705-3 .
• The levende middelalder. Fortællinger om dansk and europæisk identitet . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2005, ISBN 87-02-03278-3 .
• as editor: A companion to Jean Gerson (= Brill's companions to the Christian tradition. Volume 3). Brill, Leiden et al. 2006, ISBN 90-04-15009-9 .
• There in heaven kom nærmere. Fortællinger om Danmarks kristning 700 - 1300 . Alfa, Frederiksberg 2008, ISBN 978-87-91191-47-3 .
  • There in heaven kom nærmere. Fortællinger om Danmarks kristning 700 - 1300 . 2nd edition, Alfa, Frederiksberg 2009, ISBN 978-87-91191-47-3 .
• The første europæer. Bernard af Clairvaux . Alfa, Frederiksberg 2009, ISBN 8791191599 .
• as editor: A companion to Bernard of Clairvaux (= Brill's companions to the Christian tradition. Volume 25). Brill, Leiden et al. 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-20139-2 .
• with Henrik Christiansen: Hjælp mig, Herre. Bøn gennem 100 år . Alfa, Frederiksberg 2011, ISBN 8771150137 .
• Spejl & kilde Den nye spiritualitet . Alfa, Frederiksberg 2012, ISBN 978-87-7115-037-7 .

literature

• as editors Lars Bisgaard, Sigga Engsbro, Kurt Villads Jensen and Tore Nyberg: Monastic culture. The long thirteenth century. Essays in honor of Brian Patrick McGuire. Proceedings of the 33rd symposium organized by the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Southern Denmark (= University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences. Volume 480). University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense 2014, ISBN 978-87-7674-774-9 .

Web links

• Homepage
• Brian Patrick McGuire has published in RI-Opac