About Robert Brentano
Lived 1926 – 2002 (aged 76). Robert Brentano was an American historian and writer.
Robert James Brentano (19 May 1926 – 21 November 2002) was a prize-winning author and historian of medieval England and Italy. One of his books, Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century, won the 1968 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the Haskins Medal. Brentano was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978 and the American Philosophical Society in 1996.
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Who was Robert Brentano?
American historian (1926–2002)
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Robert Brentano was born on 19 May 1926 in Newburgh.
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Robert Brentano died on 21 November 2002 in Berkeley.
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Robert Brentano was a historian and writer.
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Robert Brentano was American.
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