Bennett David Hill (1934–2005) was a historian, a Benedictine monk and an author.

Formative years

Hill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1934 and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was ten. He earned advanced degrees from Harvard University (A.M. in 1958) and Princeton (Ph.D. in 1963).

Career

Hill taught history at the University of Illinois at Urbana.[1]

Hill was the author of English Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century (1968),[2][3] Church and State in the Middle Ages (1970),[4] and articles in Analecta Cisterciensia, New Catholic Encyclopedia, The American Benedictine Review and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He was one of the contributing editors of The Encyclopedia of World History (2001).[1]

Among other publications Hill have made contributions to are A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society,[5] both published in several editions.

Hill was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and served as vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (1995–1996). A Benedictine monk of Saint Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he also taught at St. Anselm's Abbey School and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Ebrey, Patricia B.; & Beck, Roger B. (2007). A History of World Societies (7th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, v-vi. ISBN 978-0-618-61093-8.
  2. ↑ O'Sullivan, Jeremiah F. (1969). "English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century. Bennett D. Hill". Speculum. 44 (1): 143–145. doi:10.2307/2855060. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2855060.
  3. ↑ Holdsworth, C. J. (1971). "Review of English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century". The Catholic Historical Review. 56 (4): 717–719. JSTOR 25018733.
  4. ↑ Chaney, William A. (September 1973). "Church and State in the Middle Ages. By Bennett D. Hill". Church History. American Society of Church History. 42 (3): 424. doi:10.2307/3164408. JSTOR 3164408. S2CID 162329443. Closed access icon
  5. ↑ Smith, Richard L. (1979). "Review of A History of Western Society". The History Teacher. 13 (1): 125. doi:10.2307/492026. JSTOR 492026.
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