Peter Anthony Linehan, FBA (11 July 1943 – 9 July 2020) was a British historian of medieval Spain.[1][2][3]

He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, where he was Dean of Discipline,[4] and a fellow of the British Academy.[5][3]

Life

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Linehan was born in Mortlake, London, the son of a brokerage clerk and a teacher, and attended St Benedict's School, Ealing.[6] He first visited Spain in 1959.[7] He joined St John's College in 1961 as an undergraduate to study History. He remained at St John's where he became a research fellow in 1966.[6][8] He completed his PhD on "Reform and reaction: the Spanish kingdoms and the Papacy in the thirteenth century", under the supervision of Walter Ullmann.[6] This won the Thirlwall Prize and Seeley medal for 1970-1, and formed the basis for his first book, "The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century" (1971).[4][9]

At St John's, Linehan served as a Tutor, Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Director of Studies in History three times, and Dean of Discipline for 11 years.[10][8]

Linehan was influenced by Walter Ullmann, Christopher Cheney, Raymond Carr, Geoffrey Barraclough, and his tutor Ronald Robinson.[11][12]

He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1971[6][13] and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia in 1996.[6][3] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2002.[5] In 2018, he was awarded an honorary degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[7][14]

Personal life

He died in 2020 aged 76 from heart disease.[11] He was survived by his wife and their three children.[4]

Books

  • The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century (1971)
  • Spanish Church and Society, 1150-1300 (1983)
  • Past and Present in Medieval Spain (1992)
  • History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (1993)
  • The Ladies of Zamora (1997)
  • The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law (2002)
  • The Mozarabic Cardinal: the life and times of Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel (2004, with Francisco J. Hernández)
  • Spain 1157–1300: a partible inheritance (2008)
  • St John's College, Cambridge: A History (2011)
  • Historical Memory and Clerical Activity in Medieval Spain and Portugal (2012)
  • Portugalia Pontificia: Materials for the history of Portugal and the Papacy 1198–1417 (2012)
  • At the Edge of Reformation: Iberia before the Black Death (2019)

References

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