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Paul Meyvaert

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54:, and taught himself the skills necessary to become a scholar of medieval history. He published his first scholarly in 1955, and from then on published a series of articles that investigated first the history of the Benedictines, and then, more broadly, other topics in medieval history, with a keen interest in the history of religion and textual issues. He wrote two monographs, on 41:
Meyvaert was born Jeffrey Meyvaert in the United Kingdom on November 12, 1921; his mother was British, his father, whom he barely knew, was Belgian. His mother was very religious; she raised him in England, Belgium, and Ireland, with an eye on his entering a religious vocation. When he entered the
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was a Benedictine monk who turned to medieval scholarship, and became a renowned scholar whose philological and historical work focused on medieval conceptions of authorship. Largely self-taught, he published on forgeries, iconography, and textual criticism. He taught at
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he adopted "Paul" as his first name. He lived mostly on the
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Davis, Jennifer R.; McCormick, Michael (March 2016).
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Duke University
Harvard University
Medieval Academy of America
Speculum
Order of Saint Benedict
Isle of Wight
Quarr Abbey
Bede
Gregory the Great
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Benedictine rule
"In Memoriam: Paul Jeffrey Meyvaert: Historian of Early Medieval Civilization"
American Historical Association
Categories
1921 births
2015 deaths
Benedictine monks
Duke University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Medieval Academy of America
British editors

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