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David Joseph Herlihy (May 8, 1930 – February 21, 1991) was an American historian who served as the president of the American Historical Association. [1] He wrote on medieval and renaissance life, and was married to fellow historian Patricia Herlihy.
David J. Herlihy, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Brown University, and the 1990 president of the American Historical Association, died on February 21, 1991, in Providence, at the age of 60.
Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism.
Feb 24, 1991 · David Herlihy, historian and professor of medieval history and former president of the American Historical Association, died Thursday at his home in Providence, R.I. He was 60...
Sep 28, 1997 · A book by David Herlihy, a historian at Brown University, that explores the impact of the Black Death on medieval Europe. It challenges the conventional view of the plague as a catastrophe and argues that it also fostered technological, cultural, and social changes.
- illustrated, reprint
- David Herlihy
- Samuel Kline Cohn
David J. Herlihy hides a keen intellect, consuming devotion to his work and an astonishingly prolific career behind an unassuming manner and a twinkling Irish eye. Dave was born in San Francisco in 1930, the youngest of four children.
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Herlihy is considered a pioneer in the use of computers to analyze historical data to extrapolate socioeconomic trends and what they reveal about life during the middle ages. He capitalized on a "treasure trove" of largely untouched medieval town records in Italy and on the advancement of computing in the 1950s.
