Richard William Pfaff
{{Short description|American historian (1936–2016)}}
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Richard William Pfaff (1936-10 July 2016) was an American historian specializing in medieval English liturgy.
Biography
He was a descendant of German settlers in the Midwest.{{cite web |title=Richard William Pfaff FSA [obituary] |url=https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Pfaff-Obituary-1.pdf |publisher=Magdalen College, Oxford |accessdate=9 June 2020}} In 1966, he was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Career
He completed his B.A. in history at Harvard College. He later received the Rhodes scholarship and attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received his D.Phil in history. He served as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill until his retirement in 2006.
Honors
In 1993, he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Personal life
Bibliography
His notable books include:{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/225645.Richard_Pfaff|title=Richard Pfaff|website=www.goodreads.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80061186/|title=Pfaff, Richard William 1936-2016 [WorldCat Identities]}}
- The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009.
- Liturgical Calendars, Saints and Services in Medieval England. (= Variorum collected studies series 610). Aldershot: Ashgate 1998.
- Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Select Bibliography (= Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1982.
- New Liturgical Feasts In Later Medieval England (= Oxford theological monographs). Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970.
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Gibson |editor1-first=Margaret T. |editor2-last=Pfaff |editor2-first=Richard William |editor3-last=Heslop |editor3-first=T. A. |editor1-link=Margaret Gibson (historian) |editor3-link=Sandy Heslop |title=The Eadwine psalter: text, image, and monastic culture in twelfth-century Canterbury |date=1992 |publisher=Modern Humanities Research Association |location=London |isbn=9780947623463}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-obituaries/article90461677.html News & Observer obituary] (paywalled)
- [https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2001044613_Richard_W_Pfaff ResearchGate]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Harvard College alumni
Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty