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The Edwards Professor of Medieval History is a professorship at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland.
John Graham Wilmot Henderson is a retired Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley was a British historical demographer. Wrigley and Peter Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964.
Dorothy Whitelock, was an English historian. From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. Her best-known work is English Historical Documents, vol. I: c. 500-1042, which she edited. It is a compilation of translated sources, with introductions.
Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Jan Pinborg (1937–1982) was a renowned historian of medieval linguistics and philosophy of language, and the most famous member of the Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy pioneered by Heinrich Roos in the 1940s. Pinborg was a pupil of Roos.
Edward Miller was an eminent British historian. He was educated at Cambridge University where he read medieval history. After a successful career in academia and public life, he was elected to become the Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge for over a decade, between the years 1971 and 1981. During this time, Miller oversaw a significant expansion of the college and was constantly active in the governance of the University of Cambridge.
Glenn Warren Most is an American classicist and comparatist originating from the US, but also working in Germany and Italy.
The Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions was established at the University of Cambridge on 5 February 1944 from a sum of £44,000 received from the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press in 1943 and augmented by a further £5,000 in 1946. The title of the chair was changed to the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions in 1951.
The Haskins Medal is an annual medal awarded by the Medieval Academy of America. It is awarded for the production of a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies.
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Henry Ansgar Kelly is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Diana Eleanor Greenway, is a British retired historian and academic, who specialised in medieval history and palaeography. She taught at the Institute of Historical Research from 1964 to 2003, and she was Reader in Medieval History (1993–1998) and then Professor of Medieval History (1998–2003) at the University of London.
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