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PhD History Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Paul Harris Freedman is an American historian and medievalist who serves as the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work regarding Medieval Europe. Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, the study of medieval peasantry, and the history of American cuisine. Freedman is the author of more than 10 books and 40 academic papers having been published by Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, University of Toronto, and the University of Bologna, among others. He wrote extensively on the history of the Middle Ages during his career as a historian though he has recently shifted to culinary history.

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Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999) (91)
Out of the East : spices and the medieval imagination (2008) (83)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: List of tables (1991) (72)
Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies (1998) (66)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Preface (1991) (59)
Food: The History of Taste (2007) (40)
Assaig d'història de la pagesia catalana (segles XI-XV) (1988) (28)
Emperor of culture: Alfonso X the learned of castile and his thirteenth-century renaissance (1991) (23)
From slavery to feudalism in South-Western Europe (1993) (20)
The Kingdom of Cyprus and the crusades, 1191–1374 (1993) (16)
The vox dei: Communication in the middle ages (1992) (16)
Health, wellness and the allure of spices in the Middle Ages. (2015) (13)
Mastic: a Mediterranean luxury product (2011) (12)
Els orígens de la servitud pagesa a la Catalunya medieval (1993) (9)
COWARDICE, HEROISM AND THE LEGENDARY ORIGINS OF CATALONIA (1988) (8)
The German and Catalan Peasant Revolts (1993) (8)
Forms of servitude in Northern and Central Europe : decline, resistance, and expansion (2005) (7)
Catalan Lawyers and the Origins of Serfdom (1986) (7)
Spices and Late-Medieval European Ideas of Scarcity and Value (2005) (7)
History of Spices (2020) (7)
The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia (1983) (7)
An Unsuccessful Attempt at Urban Organization in Twelfth-Century Catalonia (1979) (7)
American Restaurants and Cuisine in the MidNineteenth Century (2011) (6)
Els terratrèmols dels segles XIV i XV a Catalunya (2009) (5)
Medieval and Modern Banquets: Commensality and Social Categorization (2015) (5)
Food in Time and Place (2017) (4)
Chop Suey USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America (2016) (4)
Voting by Senior Citizens in Long-Term Care Facilities (2013) (4)
Women and Restaurants in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2014) (4)
Spices: How the Search for Flavors Influenced Our World (2003) (3)
The Medieval Spice Trade (2012) (3)
Representations of peasant and seigneurial fury in Late Medieval and early modern Europe (2011) (3)
Review: Senyoria de la terra i tinença pagesa al Comtat de Barcelona (segles XI–XIII) (2005) (2)
Atrocities and the executions of peasant rebel leaders in late medieval and early modern Europe (2005) (2)
The Enserfment Process in Medieval Catalonia: Evidence from Ecclesiastical Sources (1982) (2)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Introduction: medieval serfdom and Catalonia (1991) (2)
Islam in the Middle Ages: The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization (2012) (2)
Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474 (2009) (2)
High-end dining in the nineteenth-century United States. (2011) (2)
Some Basic Aspects of Medieval Cuisine (2007) (2)
The ladies of Zamora. By Peter Linehan. Pp. xvi+192 incl. 3 plates and 2 maps. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. £25. 0 7190 5044 8 (1998) (2)
Georges Duby and the Medieval Peasantry (2001) (2)
Servitud pagesa a la Catalunya medieval (2013) (1)
Haroset: a taste of Jewish history (2020) (1)
Tradició i regeneració a la Catalunya medieval : La diocèsi de Vic (1985) (1)
A dossier of peasant and seigneurial violence (2016) (1)
The Customs of Catalonia between Lords and Vassals by the Barcelona Canon, Pere Albert: A Practical Guide to Castle Feudalism in Medieval Spain (review) (2012) (1)
The Medieval Cook (2010) (1)
Chronica Hispana saeculi XII, 1.Emma Falque , Juan Gil , Antonio Maya (1993) (1)
Military Orders and Peasant Servitude in Catalonia: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (1985) (1)
The Return of the Grotesque in Medieval Historiography (1995) (1)
The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal (review) (2005) (1)
Reviews (2000) (1)
Sex With Guilt (1989) (1)
The Medieval Taste for Spices (2012) (1)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Effects of the Black Death (1991) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Densities of Remença households at the end of the Civil War (1991) (0)
The English Savoury Course (2020) (0)
Peasant servitude in Mediaeval Catalonia (2013) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Peasant agitation and civil war, 1388–1486 (1991) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Appendix 4 (1991) (0)
The bishop of Tortosa's rights over Alquézar according to a letter of Pope Alexander III (2002) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Appendix 3 (1991) (0)
Church, law, and society in Catalonia, 900-1500 (1994) (0)
Spices in the Middle Ages (2004) (0)
Books (1998) (0)
Fernando López Alsina, Introducción al fenómeno urbano medieval gallego, a través de tres ejemplos: Mondoñedo, Vivero y Ribadeo . Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1976. Paper. Pp. 155; 27 black-and-white plates, 18 maps. Ptas 350. (1979) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Changes in the status of peasants: late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries (1991) (0)
The Routledge History of American Foodways (2018) (0)
16.10.08, Woolgar, The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500 (2016) (0)
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy by Cristina Mazzoni (review) (2019) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Conclusion: origins of Catalan servitude (1991) (0)
Medieval Chichés of Health and Diet according to Francesc Eiximenis (2005) (0)
A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328. (1995) (0)
Chapter 9. Medieval Peasants’ Image of Themselves in Relation to the Seigneurial Regime (2021) (0)
A fifteenth-century explanation for the origins of catalan serfdom (1983) (0)
Serfs as a Medieval Minority (2010) (0)
Bookshelf (2007) (0)
Medieval cuisine and the seasons of the year 1 (2017) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe ed. by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson (review) (2015) (0)
Comunicacions a la ponència del professor Pierre Bonnassie [3] (1985) (0)
Marie-Claude Gerbet, L'Espagne au moyen âge: VIIIe–XVe siècle . Paris: Armand Colin, 1992. Paper. Pp. 424; many black-and-white illustrations, tables. (1994) (0)
William H. TeBrake. A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323–1328. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1993. Pp. x, 170. Cloth $29.95, paper $13.95 (1995) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: The free peasants of the ninth to eleventh centuries (1991) (0)
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey. By Gary Paul Nabhan. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 305. $29.95.) (2016) (0)
Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America. By Laresh Jayasanker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-520-34396-2. (2021) (0)
Teuscher, Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories (Paul Freedman) (2013) (0)
The Medieval Cook (review) (2010) (0)
La cuina medieval i les estacions de l'any (2009) (0)
Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte De Hese's "Itinerarius" and Medieval Travel Narratives. Scott D. Westrem (2003) (0)
Food and Drink (2020) (0)
Menus of the Zodiac Club of New York, 1868–1915 (2022) (0)
Els pagesos medievals. Imatge d'ells mateixos en relació amb el règim senyorial (2012) (0)
Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy. By Cristina Mazzoni (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018) 193 pp. $48.75 (2019) (0)
La servitud a Catalunya i la guerra civil catalana en el context europeu (1996) (0)
JODI CAMPBELL, At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain. Lincoln, NE/London: University of Nebraska Press. 2017. viii + 238 pp. (2019) (0)
Medical care for the Indigent in Illinois. (1977) (0)
Terrapin Monster (2019) (0)
"Remences" and the Lordship of Sant Pere de Casserres (2013) (0)
A letter of Pope Innocent III to the Monastery of Sant Esteve de Banyoles (1216) (1996) (0)
North-American Historiography of the Peasant Land Market (2020) (0)
The senses in late medieval England – By Christopher M. Woolgar (2008) (0)
A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca . By David Abulafia · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii + 292 pp. Maps, illust., appendixes, index and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-32244-8. (1995) (0)
Oliba com a comte, notes addicionals sobre un document de Saragossa (2008) (0)
13.01.10, Teuscher, Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories (2013) (0)
A Charter of Oliba from before His Entry into Religious Life (2017) (0)
Best in white (2003) (0)
Reviews Section (2000) (0)
The Llobregat as a frontier in the trirteenth century (1991) (0)
Noves aportacions al coneixement de la pintura romànica catalana. (2009) (0)
Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. xix, 317; 5 maps. $27.50. (1985) (0)
El món polític i social de Ramon Llull (2008) (0)
Some Background to Contemporary Catalan Nationalism (2020) (0)
The Evolution of Servile Peasants in Hungary and in Catalonia: A comparison (1996) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Catalan servitude in the thirteenth century (1991) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Bibliography (1991) (0)
La societat local i la política reial al Llibre de Privilegis de Terrassa (2006) (0)
Peasant servitude in the thirteenth century (1986) (0)
"What's taters, precious?": food in Tolkien's "The lord of the rings" (2012) (0)
A Book Review: Bound Together (2007) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Pyrenees and pre-Pyrenees (1991) (0)
Section I: Leisure and Society (2014) (0)
12.06.13, Kitsikopoulos, Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 (2012) (0)
Why Food Matters (2021) (0)
Luxury Dining in the Middle Ages (2021) (0)
La societat rural a Catalunya en temps feudals: Vallès Oriental, segles XIII–XVI. By Mercè Aventin i Puig (Barcelona, Spain: Columna Assaig, 1996. 657pp.) (1998) (0)
David Abulafia, ed., The New Cambridge Medieval History, 5: C. 1198–c. 1300 . Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 1045 plus color frontispiece and 18 black-and-white plates; 14 maps and 6 genealogical tables. $120. (2002) (0)
El segle xv de Vicens Vives i la nostra època (2010) (0)
Lamprey and herring (2021) (0)
Some additional letters of pope Innocent III concerning the cathedral chapter of Vic (2002) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Appendix 1 (1991) (0)
Peasant Resistance in Medieval Europe (1997) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Catalan comarcas and principal towns (1991) (0)
French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism. By Rick Fantasia. Politics, History, and Social Change. Edited by John C. Torpey. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+220. $104.50 (cloth); $39.95 (paper and e-book). (2022) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
Let them eat polenta (2004) (0)
Peasant Resistance in Medieval Europe Approaches to the Question of Peasant Resistance (2015) (0)
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010: Pathways of Power (review) (2012) (0)
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought (review) (2003) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Appendix 2 (1991) (0)
The Pier Project: Final Report (2006) (0)
Servitude in Roussillon (2000) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
Two Letters of Pope Honorius III on the Collection of Ecclesiastical Revenues in Spain (1990) (0)
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia: Enduring characteristics of rural Catalonia (1991) (0)
12. Restaurants (2019) (0)
Massimo Montanari. Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table. (2016) (0)
Taking the initiative (1990) (0)
The Study of the Medieval Past in Eightennth-Century Catalonia: The Legacy of Jaume Caresmar (2018) (0)

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