Sidney Painter was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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Painter was born in New York City

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; after the Taft School he attended Yale University

Yale University

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 (AB 1925; PhD 1930). He wrote many influential books. His doctoral thesis was later published as "William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England", and was supervised by Professor Sydney K. Mitchell at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

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