Brian Tierney (medievalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brian Tierney (medievalist)

English historian

Date of Birth: 01-May-1922

Place of Birth: Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Profession: historian, university teacher, medievalist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Brian Tierney (May 7, 1922 – November 30, 2019) was a historian and a medievalist.
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He was a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America for eight years until becoming professor of medieval history at Cornell University in 1959, becoming the Goldwin Smith Professor of Medieval History in 1969 and the first Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies in 1977.His speciality was medieval church history, focusing on the structure of the medieval church and the medieval state, and the influences of the interaction between these on the development of Western institutions.
He was widely recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought.
His work in these fields also proved relevant to some of the modern debates about Roman Catholic ecclesiology.
Tierney's most recent book was Liberty and Law: The Idea of Permissive Natural Law, 1100-1800.
(Catholic University Press, 2014).
He continued to work on medieval history until the time of his death.