Charles Warren Hollister (November 2, 1930 – September 14, 1997) was an American author and historian. He was one of the founding members of the

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history department. He specialized in English medieval history, especially studies that emphasized the interrelationship of England within the

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realm and the development of administrative kingship. His colleague

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called Hollister "one of the best medieval generalists in the world."

Biography

Hollister was born in

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, California, the son of Nathan and Carrie (Cushman) Hollister. He graduated with honors from

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in 1951, served in the

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during the

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, and received his Ph.D. from

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in 1958. Hollister spent his academic career at the

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, officially retiring in 1994. During his tenure the History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, expanded massively, with the hire of scholars such as

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, and Alfred Gollin. He was elected as a fellow of the

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in 1981 and was also a fellow of the

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and the Medieval Academy of Ireland. In May 1982, Hollister and his graduate students founded the

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Society, dedicated to the study of

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, Anglo-

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, and early

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history. Hollister's research centered on the career of

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. However, his biography of that monarch was delayed by the loss of the manuscript, note cards and research library in the Santa Barbara wildfire of 1990.Russell, "Foreword". Hollister's Henry I biography was incomplete at the time of his death, but his doctoral student, Amanda Clark Frost, finished and published it with the

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in 2001.

Publications

* "King John and the Historians", ''Journal of British Studies'' 1#1 (1961), pp. 1–1
online
* ''Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the Eve of the Norman Conquest'', 1962 (Triennial Book Prize of the Conference on British Studies) * ''Medieval Europe: A Short History'', 1964 * ''The Military Organization of Norman England'', 1965 * ''A History of England, Volume I: The Making of England, 55 B.C.–1399'', 1966 * ''Roots of the Western Tradition: A Short History of the Ancient World'', 1966 * (With John L. Stipp and Alan Dirrum) ''The Rise and Development of Western Civilization'', 1967 * (Editor) ''The Impact of the Norman Conquest'', 1969 * (With Judith Pike) ''The Moons of Meer'' (juvenile fantasy), 1969 * ''Odysseus to Columbus: A Synopsis of Classical and Medieval History'', 1974 * ''Monarchy, Magnates and Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World'', 1986 * (With J. Sears McGee and Gale Stokes) ''The West Transformed: A History of Western Civilization'', 2000 * ''Henry I'' (edited and completed by Amanda Clark Frost), 2001

References

External links

C. Warren Hollister, History: Santa Barbara
, ''1997, University of California: In Memoriam.'' *"C(harles) Warren Hollister", ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollister, C. Warren 1930 births 1997 deaths American medievalists Harvard University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Fellows of the Royal Historical Society American male non-fiction writers University of California, Santa Barbara faculty