Linehan, Peter, 1943-2020
by Professor Malcolm Schofield FBA and Francisco Hernández
- Date
- 11 Nov 2022
- Number of pages
- 22 (pages 411-432)
With his first book, The Spanish Church and the Papacy (1972), Peter Linehan revolutionised the study of relations between church and state in Spain in the high middle ages. His magnum opus, History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (1994), covering a vast temporal span, showed, among other things, that medieval chronicles were historical artefacts written not to ‘tell the truth’, but to present as such the particular agendas of the powers that be. Perhaps his greatest legacy will be the two massive collections of documents and pontifical diplomatic studies included in his Portugalia Pontificia (2013) and España Pontificia (2023).
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