Bernard Stanley Bachrach (born 1939) is an American historian. He taught history at the

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from 1967 until his retirement in 2020. He specializes in the

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, mainly on the topics of

medieval warfare Medieval warfare is the warfare of the Middle Ages. Technological, cultural, and social advancements had forced a severe transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery ( ...

medieval Jewry History of European Jews in the Middle Ages covers Jewish history in the period from the 5th to the 15th century. During the course of this period, the Jewish population gradually shifted from their homeland in the Levant to Europe, primarily ...

, and early Angevin history (he has written a biography of

Fulk Nerra Fulk III, the Black ( 987–1040; fro, Foulque Nerra), was an early count of Anjou celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. It is estimated Fulk constructed approximately 100 castles, along with abbeys throughout the Lo ...

). Bachrach received the CEE Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota in 1993 and entered the College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College at Minnesota in 2000. He has also been the recipient of a McKnight Research Award. He has translated the from Latin into English.

Works

*''Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751'',

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, 1972. *''Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire'',

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, 2001. *''The Anatomy of a Little War, a diplomatic and military history of the Gundovald affair (568-586)'',

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, 1994. *''A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity Through the Early Middle Ages'', University of Minnesota Press, 1973. *''Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West'',

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, 1993. *''Fulk Nerra,the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count'',

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, 1993. * *''Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe'',

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, 2002. *''The Medieval Church: Success or Failure?'', Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. *''Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe'', University of Minnesota Press, 1977. *''Jews in Barbarian Europe'', Coronado Press, 1977.

References

External links

Profile at the University of Minnesota website
* American medievalists 1939 births Living people University of Minnesota faculty Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{US-historian-stub