Paul Freedman

Paul H. Freedman is the Chester D Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He specializes in medieval social history, the history of Spain, the study of medieval peasantry, and medieval cuisine.

Paul Freedman during a book reading in Oxford, Mississippi, 2016

Freedman was awarded a BA at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MLS from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in History at Berkeley in 1978 and then taught for 18 years at Vanderbilt University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997.[1]

His 1999 book Images of the Medieval Peasant won the Medieval Academy's prestigious Haskins Medal.

Bibliography

• The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia, 1983
• The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, 1991
• Images of the Medieval Peasant, 1999
• Food: The History of Taste (ed.), 2007
• Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, 2008
• Ten Restaurants That Changed America, 2016
• American Cuisine: And How It Got That Way, 2019

Lectures

• (video) HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 (Fall 2011), by Paul H. Freedman at Open Yale Courses.

References

1. "Paul Freedman". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

External links

• Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, on his book "Out of the East:spices and the medieval imagination".
• His page at Yale.edu
• His website