Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman during a book reading in Oxford, Mississippi, 2016

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 received a 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.

Bibliography

• The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia, 1983
• The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, 1991
• Images of the Medieval Peasant, 1999
• Food: The History of Taste (ed.), 2007
• Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, 2008
• Ten Restaurants That Changed America, 2016
• American Cuisine: And How It Got That Way, 2019

Lectures

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

External links

• Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, on his book "Out of the East:spices and the medieval imagination".
• His page at Yale.edu
• His website