Bernard Stanley Bachrach (May 14, 1939 – July 14, 2023) was an American historian. He taught history at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
from 1967 until his retirement in 2020. He specialized in the
Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages (historiography), Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century. They marked the start o ...
, mainly on the topics of
medieval warfare,
medieval Jewry, and
early Angevin history (he wrote a biography of
Fulk Nerra). He also wrote an important article about the treatment of Jews in the
Visigothic kingdom
The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths () was a Barbarian kingdoms, barbarian kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic people ...
.
Bachrach was born on May 14, 1939. He 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 was also the recipient of a McKnight Research Award. He has translated the from Latin into English.
Bernard Bachrach died on July 14, 2023, at the age of 84.
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Works
*''Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751'', University of Minnesota Press, 1972.
*''Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire'', University of Pennsylvania Press
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, 2001.
*''The Anatomy of a Little War, a diplomatic and military history of the Gundovald affair (568-586)'', Westview Press, 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'', Variorum, 1993.
*''Fulk Nerra,the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count'', University of California Press
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, 1993.
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*''Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe'', Ashgate Publishing
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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.
*''The Saxon War'', Catholic University of America Press by Bruno of Merseburg ( Bruno the Saxon, translated by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, 2022.
*''Deeds of the Saxons'', Catholic University of America Press by Widukind of Corvey, translated by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, 2014.
References
External links
Profile at the University of Minnesota website
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1939 births
2023 deaths
American medievalists
Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
University of Minnesota faculty
Jewish American historians
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