Robert Brentano

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Name Robert Brentano		Role Author

Died November 21, 2002, Berkeley, California, United States Education Oriel College, Oxford (1952) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for History Books Rome before Avignon, Two Churches: England, A new world in a small place

Robert James Brentano (19 May 1926 – 21 November 2002) was a prize-winning author and historian of medieval England and Italy. One of his books, Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century, won the 1968 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the Haskins Medal.

Works

York metropolitan jurisdiction and papal judges delegate (1279–1296). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1959.

Early Middle Ages, 500–1000. NY: Free Press of Glencoe. 1964.

An outline of the age of the Renaissance. Toronto: Forum House. 1970.

Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century. Princeton University Press. 1968. 2nd edn. with an additional essay by the author. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1988.

Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome. NY: Basic Books. 1974.

A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188–1378; with an appendix by John Gardner on the frescoes in the choir of San Franceso. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.

Bishops, saints, and historians: studies in the ecclesiastical history of medieval Britain and Italy; essays by Robert Brentano; edited and selected by William Linden North, professor of history at Carleton College. Aldershot, England/Burlington Vermont: Ashgate/Variorum. 2008.

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Robert Brentano Wikipedia

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