Philip Daileader is a professor of history at

The College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William I ...

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. He was born in

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, New York, on October 25, 1968, and grew up in

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, New York. He attended St. Anthony's High School in Smithtown and then South Huntington, New York. He received his

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(1990) in history from

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and earned his

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(1991) and Ph.D. (1996) in history from

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

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and the

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. 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 The Teaching Company on topics including the Middle Ages,

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, and

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first E ...

. 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, ''

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'' 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. His 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) *"La coutume dans un pays aux trois religions: la Catalogne, 1228-1319," ''Annales du Midi'' 118 (2006): 369–385. *"Catalonia and the Midi: Sixty Years of Urban History," ''Imago temporis: medium aevum'' 1 (2007) 31–58. *"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.
"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 *''True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397'', E.J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. French translation, Editions Trabucaire, 2004. *Co-edited with Philip Whalen. ''French Historians, 1900-2000. New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. *''Saint Vincent Ferrier, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe'', Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Spanish and Catalan translations, Universitat de València, 2019. Video lectures *''The Early Middle Ages'', Course No. 8267, The Teaching Company, 2004. *''The High Middle Ages'', Course No. 869, The Teaching Company, 2001. *''The Late Middle Ages'', Course No. 8296, The Teaching Company, 2007. *''Charlemagne: Father of Europe'', Course No. 30250, The Teaching Company, 2022. Audio lectures *''How the Crusades Changed History'', Course No. 3931, The Teaching Company, 2013.

External links

Philip Daileader
faculty page from William and Mary.

References

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