Charles Warren Hollister

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Charles Warren Hollister , called Warren, (born November 2, 1930 in Los Angeles , † September 14, 1997 ) was an American medieval historian.

Hollister earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1951 and received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 after serving in the US Air Force in the Korean War . He was one of the founders of the History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara , where he retired in 1994.

He dealt with the Middle Ages (11th to 13th centuries) in England, especially administrative history after the Norman conquest, and wrote a biography of Henry I. The project of the biography was caught in a fire due to the loss of his library and his manuscript and documents disabled in Santa Barbara in 1990. The book was completed by his PhD student Amanda Clark Frost and published posthumously in 2001. He became known through studies of the relationships between the Norman possessions in England and western France, which were previously mostly examined separately. He also published textbooks on medieval history that were widely used in the USA (such as: Medieval Europe, with eight editions, The Making of England, with seven editions).

In 1981 he became a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and he was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , Medieval Academy of Ireland and Merton College, Oxford. In 1982 he founded the Charles Homer Haskins Society. In 1983 he received an Outstanding Teacher Award from UCSB. He was a Guggenheim Fellow.

He was also a children's author and a specialist in the works of L. Frank Baum . Hollister had been married to Edith Hollister since 1952 and had three sons.

Fonts

  • Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the Eve of the Norman Conquest, Oxford University Press 1962 (received the Triennial Book Prize of the Conference on British Studies)
  • The Military Organization of Norman England, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1965
  • with Judith M. Bennett: Medieval Europe: A Short History, 10th edition, McGraw Hill 2005
  • The Making of England: 55 BC to 1399, DC Heath, 7th edition 1995
  • with Sears McGee, Gale Stokes: The West Transformed: A History of Western Civilization, Cengage Learning 1999
  • with Joe W. Leedom: Medieval Europe. A short sourcebook, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition 1996
  • with Guy Maclean Rogers: Roots of the Western Tradition: a short history of the ancient world, McGraw Hill, 8th edition 2007
  • with Amanda Clark Frost: Henry I, Yale University Press 2001
  • The Rise and Development of Western Civilization, Wiley 1967
  • Odysseus to Columbus: Synopsis of Classical and Mediaeval History, Wiley 1974
  • Monarchy, Magnates and Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World, Bloomsbury Academic 1986 (collection of articles)

literature

  • Donald F. Fleming, Janet M. Pope (Eds.): Henry I and the Anglo-Norman world: studies in memory of C. Warren Hollister, Haskins Society Journal, special volume 17, 2006, Boydell Press 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Hollister, Charles Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1997