John R. Williams (historian)

John Robert Williams (1897-1988) was an American historian of the Middle Ages.
Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her served in the American military in World War I. He received his undergrad degree from Darmouth College. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1927, where he had been studying for 8 years. and then taught at Dartmouth College from 1927 until 1964. Among his works was "Godfrey of Rheims, a Humanist of the Eleventh Century" an article published in Speculum on Godfrey of Rheims. In 1931 he proposed Walter of Châtillon as the author of the Moralium dogma philosophorum.
 
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