James Brundage

James Arthur Brundage (born February 5, 1929 in Lincoln , Nebraska ) is an American historian .

James Brundage studied history at the University of Nebraska , where he received his master's degree in 1951. At the Fordham University he obtained in 1955 with a study on the account books of Whalley Abbey the Ph.D. From 1953 to 1957 he was an instructor at Fordham University .

From 1957 to 1989, he taught history at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee . He then worked from 1989 to 2000 as a professor of history at the University of Kansas . He has been retired since 2000. His research and teaching focuses on the Middle Ages , especially the history of ecclesiastical law, and especially the Crusades .

Fonts (selection)

• 1991: The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law , London: Variorum, 300 pages
• 1974: Richard Lion-Heart: A Biography , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. 278 pages
• 1969: Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press , 244 pages
• 1964: The Crusades: Motives and Achievements. Problems in European Civilization , Boston: DC Heath, 89 pages
• 1962: The Crusades: A Documentary Survey , Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 318 pages
• 1961: The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 262 pages

literature

• Rimvydas Šilbajoris, Arvids Ziedonis, Edgar Anderson: Summary of proceedings , Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, p. 224.
• Kenneth Pennington , Melodie Harris Eichbauer (Ed.): Law as profession and practice in medieval Europe: Essays in honor of James A. Brundage , Farham u. a. 2011

Web links

• CrusaderStudies: Professor James Brundage , page from Queen Mary, University of London
• Publications by James A. Brundage in the Opac der Regesta Imperii