Edmund Fryde

Edmund Fryde
Edmund Fryde
Born	16 July 1923
Died	17 November 1999
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	University of Oxford
Thesis	Edward III's war finance 1337-41: transactions in wool and credit operations (1947)
Doctoral advisor	Goronwy Edwards
Academic work
Discipline	Medieval history
Sub-discipline	Economic history, Renaissance studies
Institutions	University of Aberystwyth (1947–1990)

Edmund Bolesław Fryde, FBA (16 July 1923 – 17 November 1999) was a Polish-born British historian of medieval England and the early Renaissance.

Biography

Fryde was a son of Mieczysław (Matthew) Fryde, a prominent Polish-Jewish lawyer and economic historian, and Salomea Ludwika (Sarah Louise) Rosenzweig, both originally from Częstochowa. He grew up in Warsaw and came to the United Kingdom to study at Bradfield College in 1938. He took his undergraduate degree at Balliol College, University of Oxford (1942–4) and completed his doctoral thesis there in 1947.^[1] He was Lecturer in Economic History, then Professor at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1947 to 1990. Over the course of his research career, he moved from the study of medieval economics to intellectual history.

Fryde was married to Natalie Davies, his former student, from 1966 to 1981. He was a cousin of the novelist Uri Orlev.

Books

The Wool Accounts of William de la Pole: A Study of Some Aspects of the English Wool Trade at the Start of the Hundred Years (1964)
Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance (1983)
Humanism and Renaissance Historiography (1983)
Peasants and Landlords in Later Medieval England c.1380–c.1525 (1996)
The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261–c.1360) (2000)

Notes

^ Edward's III war finance 1337-41 : transactions in wool and credit operations (Fryde, E. B.), Search Oxford Libraries Online, retrieved 12 March 2023

References

Huws, Daniel (2003), "Edmund Boleslaw Fryde, 1923–1999" (PDF), Proceedings of the British Academy, 120: 105–119
Obituary. Professor Edmund Fryde The Independent. Retrieved 25 February 2023
Obituary The Guardian. 2 December 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2023
Richmond, Colin (2000). "Edmund Boleslaw Fryde (1923–99)". Renaissance Studies. 14 (3): 396–398. doi:10.1111/j.1477-4658.2000.tb00103.x. JSTOR 24412882. S2CID 153279553.