Robert Brentano

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.^[1]2nd edn. with an additional essay by the author. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1988.
• Rome before Avignon: a social history of ancient Rome. NY: Basic Books. 1974.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]

References

1. Dahmus, Joseph H. (Apr 1969). "Review: Two churches by Robert Brentano". The American Historical Review 74 (4): 1266–1267. doi:10.2307/1856780.
2. Hughes, Diane Owen (Jan 1976). "Review: Rome before Avignon by Robert Brentano". Social History 1 (1): 103–105.
3. Brooke, Christopher N. L. (Jan 1995). "Review: A new world in a small place by Robert Brentano". Speculum 70 (1): 124–127. doi:10.2307/2864716.
4. Dameron, George (July 2010). "Review: Bishops, saints, and historians; essays by Robert Brentano". The Catholic Historical Review 96 (3): 518–519. doi:10.1353/cat.0.0817.