Philip Daileader is a professor of history at The College of William & Mary in

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Early life

Daileader was born in

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, New York, on October 25, 1968, and grew up in Central Islip, New York.

Education

Daileader attended St. Anthony's High School in Smithtown and then South Huntington, New York. He received his B.A. (1990) in history from

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and earned his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) in history from

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Teaching

Prior to taking his position at William & Mary, Daileader taught at the

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and the State University of New York at New Paltz. From 2008 to 2011, he served as the chairman of the Department of History at William & Mary. He is seen in various "

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" videos, mostly dealing with the

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. Daileader has also created numerous courses for

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on topics including the Middle Ages,

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, and

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian ...

. As a graduate student, Daileader was a four-time winner of the "Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching." At William & Mary, he has held a University Professorship for Teaching Excellence and been awarded an Alumni Fellowship Award for Teaching and a

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Award for Excellence in Teaching (Alpha chapter of Virginia). In 2012, '' The Princeton Review'' named him one of the 300 best professors in America. Daileader also received the Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence in 2016.

Books

Daileader's book ''Saint Vincent Ferrier, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe'' won the ''La corónica'' International Book Award “for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures” in 2018.

Bibliography

Articles (select) *"Corporations et gouvernance à Perpignan en 1449." In ''Histoire et archéologie en Pays catalan. Mélanges offerts à Aymat Catafau'', Trabucaire, 2024, pp. 285-300. *"Local Experiences of the Great Western Schism," in J. Rollo-Koster and T. Izbicki (eds.), ''A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)'', Brill, 2009, pp. 89–121. *"Catalonia and the Midi: Sixty Years of Urban History," ''Imago temporis: medium aevum'' 1 (2007) 31–58. *"La coutume dans un pays aux trois religions: la Catalogne, 1228-1319," ''Annales du Midi'' 118 (2006): 369–385.
"The Vanishing Consulates of Catalonia,"
'' Speculum'', Vol. 74, No. 1. (Jan., 1999), pp. 65–94. *"Town and Countryside in Northeastern Catalonia, 1267-ca. 1450: The sobreposats de la horta of Perpignan," '' Journal of Medieval History'' 24 (1998): 347-66 *"One Will, One Voice, and Equal Love: Papal Elections and the Liber Pontificalis in the Early Middle Ages," ''Archivum historiae pontificiae'' 31 (1993): 11–31. Books *''Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan,'' Cambridge University Press, 2025. *''Saint Vincent Ferrier, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe'', Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Spanish translation: ''San Vicente Ferrer - Su mundo y su vida'' and Catalan translation: ''La vida i el món de Sant Vicent Ferrer'', Universitat de València, 2019. *Co-edited with Philip Whalen. ''French Historians, 1900-2000. New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. *''True Citizens - Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan 1162-1397'', Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, Köln, 2000. French translation: ''De Vrais Citoyens - Violence, mémoire et identité dans la communauté médiévale de Perpignan 1162-1397'', Trabucaire, 2004. Video lectures *''How the Crusades Changed History'', Course No. 30650,

, 2023. *''Charlemagne: Father of Europe'', Course No. 30250,

, 2022. *''The Late Middle Ages'', Course No. 8296,

, 2007. *''The Early Middle Ages'', Course No. 8267,

, 2004. *''The High Middle Ages'', Course No. 869,

, 2001. Audio lectures *''How the Crusades Changed History'', Course No. 3931,

, 2013.

External links

Philip Daileader
faculty page from William and Mary.

References

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