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HILLGARTH, J(ocelyn) N(igel) 1929-

PERSONAL: Born September 22, 1929, in London, England; son of Alan Hugh (a naval officer) and Mary (Gardner) Hillgarth; married Nina Pantaleoni (a university administrator), February 25, 1966. Education: Queens' College, Cambridge, B.A., 1950; Cambridge University, M.A., 1954, Ph.D., 1957.

ADDRESSES: Office—Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 59 Queen's Park Cr. E, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2CA, Canada.

CAREER: Warburg Institute, London, England, senior research fellow, 1959-62; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, member, 1963-64; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor of history, 1965-70; Boston College, Boston, MA, associate professor, 1970-73, professor of history, 1973-77; University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, professor of history, 1977—. University of Texas—Austin, visiting lecturer, 1964-65; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lady Davis Visiting Professor, 1980.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Mediaeval Academy of America, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.

AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim fellow, 1968-69; fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1976-77.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) The Conversion of Western Europe, 350-750, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1969, revised edition published as Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1985.

Ramon Lull and Lullism in Fourteenth-Century France, Clarendon Press, 1971.

The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), Volume 1, 1976, Volume 2, 1978.

(With Miquel Batllori) Vida de Ramon Llull: Les Fonts escrites i la iconografia coetànies, Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), 1982.

(With Giulio Silano) The Register "Notule Communium" 14 of the Diocese of Barcelona (1345-1348): A Calendar with Selected Documents, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1983.

(Editor) Mary Hillgarth, A Private Life: Autobiographical Writings, privately printed (Majorca, Spain), 1984.

Visigothic Spain, Byzantium, and the Irish, Variorum Reprints (London, England), 1985.

Readers and Books in Majorca, 1229-1550, 1991.

The Liber Communis Curiae of the Diocese of Majorca, 1364-1374, 1992.

The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2000.

Shorter works include "Who Read Thomas Aquinas?," Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1992; author of introduction and notes, Chronicle/Pere III of Catalonia (Pedro IV of Aragon), two volumes, by Pedro IV, King of Aragon, translated by Mary Hillgarth, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1980. Contributor to learned journals, including Catholic Historical Review, Speculum, Journal of Medieval Studies, and American Historical Review.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, February, 1980, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 105.

British Book News, February, 1980, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 74.

Catholic Historical Review, January, 1981, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 67; January, 1986, review of The Register "Notule Communium" 14 of the Diocese of Barcelona (1345-1348): A Calendar with Selected Documents, p. 70; April, 1991, Jill R. Webster, review of The Liber Communis Curiae of the Diocese of Majorca, 1364-1374, p. 302.

Choice, June, 1979, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 588; June, 2001, M. A. Burkholder, review of The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth, p. 1858.

English Historical Review, July, 1982, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 629.

Historian, August, 1980, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 669.

History: Reviews of New Books, August, 1981, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 219.

History Today, April, 1982, review of Ramon Lull and Lullism in Fourteenth-Century France, p. 48.

Journal of Religion, July, 1990, review of Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe, p. 513.

Journal of Theological Studies, October, 2001, William Horbury, "Altercatio Ecclesiae et Synagogae; Potamii Episcopi Olisponensis: Opera Omnia," p. 909.

Libraries and Culture, winter, 1997, review of Readers and Books in Majorca, 1229-1550, p. 133.

Library Journal, April 1, 1979, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 826.

Speculum, October, 1980, review of The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516, p. 796; July, 1984, review of The Register "Notule Communium" 14 of the Diocese of Barcelona (1345-1348), p. 720; October, 1986, review of Visigothic Spain, Byzantium, and the Irish, p. 1024; January, 1992, review of The Liber Communis Curiae of the Diocese ofMajorca, 1364-1374, p. 151; April, 1994, Faith Wallis, review of Readers and Books in Majorca, 1229-1550, p. 495.

Times Literary Supplement, June 15, 2001, Henry Kamen, review of The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700, p. 30.*

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