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American historian
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Male
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Birth:
23 September 1902
Death:
1 January 1960
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Biography
Sidney Painter (September 23, 1902 – 1960) was an American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University.
Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University (AB 1925; PhD 1930). He wrote many influential books. His doctoral thesis was later published as "William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England", and was supervised by Professor Sydney K. Mitchell at Yale University.