Bryce Lyon
Bryce Dale Lyon (* 1920 ; † 2007 ) was an American medieval historian. He was a professor at the University of Minnesota .
Life
Lyon received his doctorate in 1949 under Carl Stephenson , a student of Henri Pirenne , at Cornell University . His dissertation was on the use of fiefdoms of English kings in the Middle Ages. In 1959 he became professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley , and in 1965 at Brown University , where he retired in 1986. In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He dealt with the history of institutions and constitutional and legal history in the Middle Ages, particularly in Great Britain, and with the economic and financial history of the Netherlands and Belgium in the Middle Ages. He also dealt with Henri Pirenne, whose biography he wrote.
His PhD students include Bernard S. Bachrach and David M. Nicholas .
His wife, Mary Lewis, was also a historian.
Fonts
- From fief to indenture; the transition from feudal to non-feudal contract in Western Europe, Harvard University Press 1957
- The Middle Ages in recent historical thought: selected topics, Washington DC 1959
- A constitutional and legal history of medieval England, 1960, new edition 1980
- with Carl Stephenson: Mediaeval history: Europe from the second to the sixteenth century, New York: Harper and Row 1962
- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300, New York: Free Press 1964
- with Adriaan Verhulst: Medieval finance; a comparison of financial institutions in northwestern Europe, Brown University Press 1967
- with Herbert Harvey Rowen, Theodore S Hamerow: A history of the western world, Chicago 1969
- The origins of the Middle Ages; Pirenne's challenge to Gibbon, New York: Norton 1972
- Henri Pirenne: a biographical and intellectual history, Gent: E. Story-Scientia 1974
literature
- BD Lyon, BS Bachrach, D. Nicholas (Ed.): Law, custom and the social fabric in medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon. Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, 1990.
- Bernard S. Bachrach, David Nicholas, James M. Murray (Eds.): Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians. Essays in Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007). Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications 2012
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyon, Bryce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lyon, Bryce Dale |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medieval historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2007 |