Richard W. Kaeuper

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Richard William Kaeuper, PhD is an American medievalist historian. He was a student of, and mentored by, Joseph Strayer, the noted Princeton scholar. Kaeuper grew up in Missouri.

Education

Kaeuper earned his PhD from Princeton in 1967, and thereafter held several posts, finishing in his present position as professor of medieval history at the University of Rochester. 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.^[1]

He has published extensively on topics ranging from law and finance to his more recent works on chivalry, culminating in the definitive general volume on chivalry, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.^[2]

Bibliography

The Holy Warrior: Knighthood and Religion (2009)
The Tension Between Vengeance and Mercy in Chivalric Mentalite (forthcoming)
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry (2005) with Elspeth Kennedy.
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (1999)
War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages (1988) Oxford
Bankers to the Crown: The Riccardi of Lucca and Edward I (1973)

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