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James A. Brundage (5 February 1929 – 5 November 2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

. He earned his PhD from

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and was a member of the History department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving to Kansas. Brundage specialized in the history of medieval canon law. In the first half of his career, he studied the history of the

crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

from the point of view of canon law. In later years, he turned to the study of the medieval professionalization of law. He also did scholarly work on canon law and medieval sexuality, and created a tongue-in-cheek flow-chart explaining medieval Christian sexual ethics.

Selected publications

* *''The Practice and Profession of Medieval Canon Law.'' Collected Studies Series 797. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. (A collection of reprinted essays). *Co-editor, with Vern L. Bullough''. Handbook of Medieval Sexuality''. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. *''Medieval Canon Law''. London: Longmans, 1995. *''The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law''. Collected Studies Series 338. London: Variorum, 1991. *''Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. *''Richard Lion Heart''. New York: Scribner, 1974. *''Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. *Editor. ''The Crusades, Motives and Achievements''. Boston: Heath, 1964. *''The Crusades, A Documentary Survey''. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1962. (All the texts from this collection are now online at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Crusades.)

References

1929 births 2021 deaths 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers University of Kansas faculty Fordham University alumni Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub