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Brian Tierney

English historian · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1922 to 2019 · aged 97

Brian Tierney was an English historian and medievalist. He was a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America for eight years until becoming a professor of medieval history at Cornell University in 1959, where he was later appointed as the Goldwin Smith Professor of Medieval History in 1969 and the...

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Haskins Medal2001
Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America1973
Guggenheim Fellowship
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He was a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America for eight years until becoming a professor of medieval history at Cornell University in 1959, where he was later appointed as the Goldwin Smith Professor of Medieval History in 1969 and the first Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies in 1977.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Deceased
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Lived 1922 to 2019 · aged 97