Thomas N. Bisson
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Thomas Noel Bisson is an American historian, medievalist, academic and author. He is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at Harvard University.[1]
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Nationality | American |
Education | Haverford College (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Historian, medievalist, academic and author |
Awards | Haskins Medal (1987) Creu de Sant Jordi, Generalitat de Catalunya (2001) |
Bisson's research centers on the political, institutional, and intellectual history of medieval Europe, with a specific emphasis on the French kingdom, southern France, and Catalonia. He has authored and co-authored research articles (21 of which were collected in Medieval France and her Pyrenean neighbors, plus two substantial editions: Fiscal Accounts of Catalonia under the Early count-kings (1151-1213) 2 vols., and The Chronography of Robert of Torigni, 2 vols.) and books, including The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History, Tormented Voices: Power, Crisis, and Humanity in Rural Catalonia, 1140-1200, and The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government. His early work was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship (1964),[2] with fellowships from NEH (1975) and ACLS (1979), leading to work on Catalonia that was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1991[3] and the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2001).[4]
Bisson was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (1975),[5] Member of the American Philosophical Society (1977),[6] and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992).[7] He is a Corresponding Member of the Institute for Catalan Studies and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona,[8] and is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.[9]