John Van Engen

John H. Van Engen is an American historian, and Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History, at the University of Notre Dame.[1]

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,[2] 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,[3] the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize,[4] and the 2013 Haskins Medal.[5]

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

  1. ↑ http://history.nd.edu/faculty/directory/john-van-engen/
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-12. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  3. ↑ http://www.achahistory.org/2010/01/van-engen-wins-john-gilmary-shea-prize/
  4. ↑ http://al.nd.edu/news/15961-john-van-engen-wins-grndler-book-prize-in-medieval-studies/
  5. ↑ http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=Haskins_Medal_Winner
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