Robert Brentano

Robert James Brentano (19 May 1926 – 21 November 2002) was a prize-winning author and historian of medieval England and Italy. One of his books, Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century, won the 1968 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the Haskins Medal.

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• York metropolitan jurisdiction and papal judges delegate (1279–1296). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1959.
• Early Middle Ages, 500–1000. NY: Free Press of Glencoe. 1964.
• An outline of the age of the Renaissance. Toronto: Forum House. 1970.
• Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century. Princeton University Press. 1968.^[1]2nd edn. with an additional essay by the author. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1988.
• Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome. NY: Basic Books. 1974.^[2]
• A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188–1378; with an appendix by John Gardner on the frescoes in the choir of San Franceso. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.^[3]
• Bishops, saints, and historians: studies in the ecclesiastical history of medieval Britain and Italy; essays by Robert Brentano; edited and selected by William Linden North, professor of history at Carleton College. Aldershot, England/Burlington Vermont: Ashgate/Variorum. 2008.^[4]

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