John H. Van Engen is an American historian

Historian

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, and Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History, at Notre Dame University.
He is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2011 Berlin Prize

Berlin Prize

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 Fellow.
He won the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize, and John Gilmary Shea Prize.

Life

He graduated from Calvin College

Calvin College

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, with a BA, and from University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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 with a PhD, where he studied with Gerhart Ladner. He studied at Heidelberg University, with Peter Classen.

Works

• Thomas F. X. Noble, John Van Engen (eds), European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, ISBN 9780268036102

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