CONTRIBUTOR:

Richard W. Pfaff

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emeritus

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BIOGRAPHY:

Richard W. Pfaff is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many publications include New Liturgical Feasts in Medieval England (1970; Montague Rhodes James (1980); Medieval Latin Liturgy: a Select Bibliography (1982); The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury (co-ed., with Margaret Gibson and T.A. Heslop, 1992); Liturgical Calendars, Services, and Saints in Medieval England (1998); The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History (2009). There is a list of his publications through 2009 in a Festschrift for him, The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England, ed. George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts (2010). He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Vice-President of the Henry Bradshaw Society.