Professor Giles Constable FBA

Medieval history
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1983
Year of birth
1929
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Religion

Summary

The medievalist Giles Constable was the author or editor of more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history concerning, among other subjects, the origins of monastic tithes, Peter the Venerable, the people and power of Byzantium, medieval religious and social thought, the reformation of the 12th century, Renaissance Florence as seen through the case of Antonio Rinaldeschi, 12th-century crusading, the history of Cluny and the 14th-century crusading propagandist William of Adam. A work on the California Gold Rush appeared in 2015.

Last post

School of Historical Studies, Princeton University Professor Emeritus

2003 -

Previous posts

Dumbarton Oaks Director

1977 - 1984

Harvard University H C Lea Professor of Medieval History

1966 - 1977

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