Bennett D. Hill

Bennett David Hill (1934-2005) was a historian, a Benedictine monk and an author. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned advanced degrees from Harvard (A.M. in 1958) and Princeton (Ph.D. in 1963). He taught history at the University of Illinois at Urbana.McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Ebrey, Patricia B.; & Beck, Roger B. (2007). "A History of World Societies" (7th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, v-vi. ISBN 978-0-618-61093-8.]

Hill was the author of "English Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century" (1968), "Church and State in the Middle Ages" (1970), and articles in "Analecta Cisterciensia", "The New Catholic Encyclopaedia", "The American Benedictine Review" and "The Dictionary of the Middle Ages". He was one of the contributing editors of "The Encyclopedia of World History" (2001).

Among other publications Hill have made contributions to are "A History of World Societies" and "A History of Western Society", both published in several editions.

Hill was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and served as vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (1995-1996). A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

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