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Linehan was born in Mortlake, London.<ref name="Medievalista">https://journals.openedition.org/medievalista/4032?lang=en</ref> He first visited Spain in 1959.<ref name="Vanguardia">https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/madrid/20180920/451934582568/la-autonoma-inviste-doctores-honoris-causa-a-peter-linehan-y-a-anil-k-jain.html</ref> He joined St John's College in 1961 as an undergraduate to study History. He remained at St John's where he became a fellow in 1966.<ref name="Fund launch">https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-launches-fund-support-new-generation-historians</ref> He completed his PhD on "Reform and reaction: the Spanish kingdoms and the Papacy in the thirteenth century", |
Linehan was born in Mortlake, London.<ref name="Medievalista">https://journals.openedition.org/medievalista/4032?lang=en</ref> He first visited Spain in 1959.<ref name="Vanguardia">https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/madrid/20180920/451934582568/la-autonoma-inviste-doctores-honoris-causa-a-peter-linehan-y-a-anil-k-jain.html</ref> He joined St John's College in 1961 as an undergraduate to study History. He remained at St John's where he became a fellow in 1966.<ref name="Fund launch">https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-launches-fund-support-new-generation-historians</ref> He completed his PhD on "Reform and reaction: the Spanish kingdoms and the Papacy in the thirteenth century", under the supervision of [[Walter Ullmann]].<ref name="Medievalista"/>. This won the Thirlwall Prize and Seeley medal for 1970-1, and formed the basis for his first book, "The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century" (1971).<ref name="John's"/><ref name="Faculty">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/peter-linehan-memoriam|title=Peter Linehan, in memoriam | Faculty of History University of Cambridge|website=www.hist.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> |
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At St John's, Linehan served as a Tutor, Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Director of Studies in History three times, and Dean of Discipline for 11 years.<ref name="Fund">https://johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/linehan-fund/</ref><ref name="Fund launch"/> |
At St John's, Linehan served as a Tutor, Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Director of Studies in History three times, and Dean of Discipline for 11 years.<ref name="Fund">https://johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/linehan-fund/</ref><ref name="Fund launch"/> |
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Peter Anthony Linehan (11 July 1943 – 9 July 2020) was a British historian of medieval Spain.[1][2][3]
He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, where he was Dean of Discipline,[4] and a fellow of the British Academy.[5][3]
Life
Linehan was born in Mortlake, London.[6] He first visited Spain in 1959.[7] He joined St John's College in 1961 as an undergraduate to study History. He remained at St John's where he became a fellow in 1966.[8] He completed his PhD on "Reform and reaction: the Spanish kingdoms and the Papacy in the thirteenth century", under the supervision of Walter Ullmann.[6]. This won the Thirlwall Prize and Seeley medal for 1970-1, and formed the basis for his first book, "The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century" (1971).[4][9]
At St John's, Linehan served as a Tutor, Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Director of Studies in History three times, and Dean of Discipline for 11 years.[10][8]
Linehan was influenced by Walter Ullmann, Christopher Cheney, Raymond Carr, Geoffrey Barraclough, and his tutor Ronald Robinson.[11][12]
He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1971[6][13] and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia in 1996.[6][3] He was elected a fellow of the British academy in 2002.[5] In 2018, he was awarded an honorary degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[7][14]
Personal life
He died in 2020 aged 76 from heart disease.[11] He was survived by his wife Christine and their three children, Gabriel, Frances and Samuel.[4]
Books
- Past and Present in Medieval Spain (1992)
- History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (1993)
- The Ladies of Zamora (1997)
- The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law (2002)
- The Mozarabic Cardinal: the life and times of Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel (2004, with Francisco J. Hernández)
- Spain 1157-1300: a partible inheritance (2008)
- St John's College, Cambridge: A History (2011)
- Historical Memory and Clerical Activity in Medieval Spain and Portugal (2012)
- Portugalia Pontificia: Materials for the history of Portugal and the Papacy 1198-1417 (2012)
- At the Edge of Reformation: Iberia before the Black Death (2019)
References
- ^ "Peter Linehan obituary" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (July 15, 2020). "Peter Linehan, learned and well-liked historian of medieval Spain – obituary" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ a b c Hernández, Francisco J. (July 12, 2020). "Peter Linehan, el análisis lúcido de la Edad Media en España y Portugal". EL PAÍS.
- ^ a b c "'Incisively intelligent' Fellow of St John's dies aged 76 | StJohns". www.joh.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ a b "Dr Peter Linehan FBA". The British Academy.
- ^ a b c d https://journals.openedition.org/medievalista/4032?lang=en
- ^ a b https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/madrid/20180920/451934582568/la-autonoma-inviste-doctores-honoris-causa-a-peter-linehan-y-a-anil-k-jain.html
- ^ a b https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-launches-fund-support-new-generation-historians
- ^ "Peter Linehan, in memoriam | Faculty of History University of Cambridge". www.hist.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ https://johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/linehan-fund/
- ^ a b Maíllo, José Carlos de Lera (July 13, 2020). "A la memoria de Peter Linehan". La Opinión de Zamora.
- ^ http://www.pliegosdeyuste.eu/n78pliegos/pdf/n78p5.pdf
- ^ https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/dr-peter-linehan
- ^ https://www.eleconomista.es/ecoaula/noticias/9393797/09/18/-La-Universidad-Autonoma-de-Madrid-investira-doctores-honoris-causa-a-Peter-Linehan-y-Anil-K-Jain.html
- 20th-century British historians
- Historians of Spain
- Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- Deaths from heart disease
- 21st-century British male writers
- British male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century British male writers
- 21st-century British historians
- 1943 births
- 2020 deaths
- British medievalists