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...Karl J. Leyser, a visiting professor of history who retired from All Souls College in Oxford last year, says he was invited to Harvard in order to fill a gap in the History Department's curriculum...
...Leyser will be teaching two courses at Harvard this spring, History 1160, "The Medieval Empire: 900-1250" and History 2270, "Medieval History." "I was specially invited here to teach these courses because apparently they had been unavailable before," he says...
...matter how many students show up for the two courses Leyser plans to teach this spring, the British historian says he plans to continue his "lifetime's work" of making the esoterica of German medieval history accessible to history students...
...Leyser, who has written two books and numerous papers on medieval history, says he has spent the bulk of his 40-year teaching career concentrating on German history and such historical figures as Gregory VII and Henry...
...scholar says that he became interested in his esoteric field when he began teaching at Oxford in 1948. According to Leyser, someone suggested to him that medieval Germany was an interesting, and largely unexplored, field...