Paul Freedman

Paul Harris Freedman (born September 15, 1949) is the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work regarding Medieval Europe. He 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. Freedman was awarded a BA at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.L.S. from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a do...