Richard William Kaeuper is an American

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. He was a student of, and mentored by,

Joseph Strayer Joseph Reese Strayer (born August 20, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, – died July 2, 1987, Princeton, New Jersey, ) was an American medievalist who taught for nearly his entire career at Princeton University and chaired the history department there ...

, the noted

Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...

scholar. Kaeuper grew up in Richmond, Indiana.

Education

Kaeuper earned his PhD from Princeton in 1967, and thereafter held several posts, finishing in his present position as

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at the

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. He is active in several scholarly organizations among them De Re Militari.

Career

Professor Kaeuper is regarded as an influential scholar in the field, known both for his thorough work and for his use of literary sources as historical evidence. He has published extensively on topics ranging from

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and

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to his more recent works on

chivalry Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct that developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christianity, Christian institution of knighthood, with knights being members of ...

, culminating in the definitive general volume on chivalry, published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Kaeuper has also won numerous teaching awards. In 2015, Kaeuper was selected to become a Fellow of the

Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until ) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes the q ...

. In 2017, Brill published a ''festschrift'' entitled ''Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper.'' It was co-edited by Craig M Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke (two of Kaeuper's doctoral students) and featured nineteen scholarly articles by his colleagues and former students.

Bibliography

*''The Tension Between Vengeance and Mercy in Chivalric Mentalite'' (forthcoming) *''Medieval Chivalry'' (Cambridge 2016) *''Kings, Knights and Bankers'' (edited by Christopher Guyol) (Brill 2015) *''Law, Governance, and Justice: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism'' (editor, with assistance of Paul Dingman and Peter Sposato) (Brill 2013) *''Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry'' (Univ. of Pennsylvania 2009) *''Violence in Medieval Society'' (editor) (Boydell 2000) *''Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe'' (Oxford 1999) *''The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation'' (with Elspeth Kennedy) (Univ. of Pennsylvania 1996), paperback version (without French text): ''A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry'' (2005) *''War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages'' (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1988) (French Translation: Aubier-Flammarion 1994) *''An Historian's Reading of The Tale of Gamelyn'' (Medium & AELIG vol. 52, 1983) *''Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer'' (Speculum vol. 54, 1979) *''Bankers to the Crown: The Riccardi of Lucca and Edward I'' (Princeton Univ. 1973)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaeuper, Richard W. American medievalists Historians of the Crusades University of Rochester faculty Princeton University alumni Living people Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Year of birth missing (living people)