Andrew W. Lewis (5 September 1943 – 24 October 2017) was an American historian and professor at

Missouri State University Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university by enr ...

. His areas of interest were

medieval Europe In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and the

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Awards and honors

* Session 8: Autour du livre d'Andrew Lewis, Le Sang royal. La famille capétienne et l'Etat, France, Xe-XIVe siècles/ Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State, 1981 *

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

, 1984. * John Nicholas Brown Prize, 1985. * John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1984–1989. * International Medieval Society Annual Symposium, June 2008.

Works

*"Anticipatory Association of the Heir in Early Capetian France", The American Historical Review 83.4 (October 1978:906-927)
"The Capetian apanages and the nature of the French kingdom "
''Journal of Medieval History'', Volume 2, Issue 2, June 1976, Pages 119-134 *''Royal succession in Capetian France: studies on familial order and the state'', Harvard University Press, 1981, *"The Birth and Childhood of King John: Some Revisions," ''Eleanor of Aquitaine; Lord and Lady'', Edited Bonnie Wheeler, John C. Parsons, Palgrave Macmillan, January 2003, * English translation of French chronicler

Bernard Itier Bernard Itier. The surname ''Iterii'' was a family name indicating descent from one named Iterius. (1163–1225) was a French Benedictine monk, Benedictine monk, librarian, copyist and chronicler at the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, abbey of Sai ...

's ''The chronicle and historical notes of Bernard Itier ''

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* 1943 births 2017 deaths American medievalists Missouri State University faculty MacArthur Fellows Harvard University alumni University of Chicago alumni Dartmouth College alumni People from Savannah, Georgia {{US-historian-stub