Joseph Henry Dahmus (March 22, 1909 – March 7, 2005) was an American scholar of
medieval history
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and the author of many books, including the ''Dictionary of Medieval Civilization'' (
Macmillan, 1984).
He was a professor at
Pennsylvania State University from 1947 to 1975.
Dahmus graduated from the
Pontifical College Josephinum in
Columbus, Ohio, received his Master's Degree in the Classics from
St. Louis University in
St. Louis, Missouri
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, and earned his PhD in Medieval History from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
His son, John W. Dahmus, is also a Medieval historian and is currently a professor at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Selected bibliography
* ''The Prosecution of John Wyclyf'' (1952)
* ''A History of Medieval Civilization'' (1964)
* ''William Courtenay: Archbishop of Canterbury'' (1966)
* ''Seven Medieval Kings'' (1967)
* ''A History of the Middle Ages'' (1968)
* ''The Middle Ages: A Popular History'' (1969)
* ''Seven Medieval Queens'' (1972)
* ''Seven Medieval Historians'' (1981)
* ''Seven Decisive Battles of the Middle Ages'' (1983)
* ''Dictionary of Medieval Civilization'' (1984)
* ''The Puzzling Gospels'' (1985)
References
20th-century American historians
20th-century American male writers
1909 births
2005 deaths
American male non-fiction writers
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