Paul Freedman

Paul H. Freedman is the Chester D Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He specializes in medieval social history, the history of Spain, the study of medieval peasantry, and medieval cuisine.

Freedman was awarded a BA at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MLS from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He receiveda Ph.D. in History at Berkeley in 1978 and then taught for 18 years at Vanderbilt University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997.

His 1999 book Images of the Medieval Peasant won the Medieval Academy's prestigious Haskins Medal.

• (video) HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 (Fall 2011), by Paul H. Freedman at Open Yale Courses.