John Van Engen

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Books Sisters and brothers of the common life, Rupert of Deutz, Past Future Medieval Studies Education University of California, Los Angeles (1969–1976), Calvin College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

John H. Van Engen is an American historian, and Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History, at the University of Notre Dame.

Life

He graduated from Calvin College, with a BA, and from University of California, Los Angeles with a PhD, where he studied with Gerhart Ladner. He studied at Heidelberg University, with Peter Classen.

Awards

He is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2011 Berlin Prize Fellow. His book, Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) won the 2009 John Gilmary Shea Prize, the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize, and the 2013 Haskins Medal.

Works

Rupert of Deutz. University of California Press. 1983. ISBN 0-520-04577-7.

Devotio Moderna. Paulist Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8091-2962-1.

Educating people of faith: exploring the history of Jewish and Christian communities. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8028-4936-6.

Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Late Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8122-4119-8.

Thomas F. X. Noble, John Van Engen (eds), European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-268-03610-2

References

John Van Engen Wikipedia

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