Raymond James Long (born December 15, 1938) is an American academic and professor emeritus of
philosophy
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Fairfield University
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Fairfield, Connecticut
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Stamford, Connecticut
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. Long was the president of the
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
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.
Biography
Long has published nine books, including ''The Life and Works of
Richard Fishacre
Richard Fishacre (or Fitzacre) (c. 1200–1248) was an English Dominican Order, Dominican theologian, the first to hold the Dominican chair at the University of Oxford. He taught at Oxford and authored the first commentary on the Four Books of Se ...
, O.P., Prolegomena to the Edition of his Commentary on the "Sentences"'', published in 1999; editions of parts one and two of the second book of ''Fishacre's Sentences Commentary'' (2008 and 2011); "
Adam of Bockenfield
Adam of Bockenfield (c. 1220 – before 1294) date of death sometimes given as 1285. was an English
Alfred of Sareshel,
Bartholomaeus Anglicus Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203–1272), also known as Bartholomew the Englishman and Berthelet, was an early 13th-century Scholastic of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium ''De proprietatibus rerum' ...
, the anonymous author of a Peterhouse manuscript on the science of botany, in addition to his work on Fishacre and Adam of Bockenfield), and was the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Canada Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a NEH Text and Editions Grant. Long received a licentiate in medieval studies from the
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) is a research institute in the University of Toronto that is dedicated to advanced studies in the culture of the Middle Ages.
Governance
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, currently Th ...
in 1966 and earned his doctorate from the
University of Toronto
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in 1968.
Personal life
Long is married to former Broadway actress Wendy Lesniak, with whom he has three sons: Damian,
Justin
Justin may refer to: People
* Justin (name), including a list of persons with the given name Justin
* Justin (historian), a Latin historian who lived under the Roman Empire
* Justin I (c. 450–527), or ''Flavius Iustinius Augustus'', Eastern Rom ...