Charles Julian Bishko is a noted specialist in Spanish and
Portuguese history of the Middle Ages and an international
authority on the Iberian background of Latin American history,
the history of the medieval frontier, the
Reconquista and on Spanish
Cluniac Monasticism. He developed this renown during a
distinguished career of almost 40 years at the University of
Virginia where, through superior teaching methods, meticulous
research and scholarly writings, he labored to make the
University a focal point for students of early Spanish and
Portuguese history.
Dr. Bishko was born in New York City on October 6, 1906. He
studied for his A.B. and A.M. degrees in Classics at the
University of Syracuse. Later, during the period 1930-1938 at
Harvard, he earned the A.M. in ecclesiastical history; served
as a University Fellow and a Francis Parkman Fellow; spent a
research year in Spain as a Sheldon Traveling Fellow; earned
his Ph.D.(1937) with a dissertation on Spanish Monasticism in
the Visigothic period and taught history at Radcliffe
College.
In 1938, he left Harvard, married Lucretia Ramsey and
accepted an appointment at the University of Virginia as an
instructor of ancient and medieval history in the (then)
Corcoran School. At the University, his career and scholastic
reputation developed steadily. He was appointed Professor in
1955 and Commonwealth Professor in 1971. His competence in his
field of study and in his teaching skills was recognized by
his induction into the
Real Academia de la Historica in
Madrid in 1974 and by his receipt of the University of
Virginia Alumni Distinguished Professor Award in 1968.
Professor Bishko was an active member of the University
community and served on many committee and faculty
assignments. Of particular note is his work as Secretary of
President Shannon's Special Committee on the Admission of
Women to the College of Arts and Sciences. (1967-68)
The collection contains ca.20,000 items (11 shelf feet) and
consists of a) general correspondence with faculty, students,
scholars and friends and personal correspondence with close
family members; b) academic papers and class notes of Bishko's
graduate study years at Harvard; c) materials on courses,
correspondence and professional meetings relating to Spanish
Portuguese and Latin American Studies; d) University of
Virginia departmental papers including committee assignments,
reports, correspondence, personalia, awards and honors,
lecture notes, outlines and student gradebooks.
The organization of the collection closely follows the
order and folder descriptions used by Dr. Bishko.
- Box 1
General Correspondence
1941-1970s
(8 folders)
- Box 2
General Correspondence
1960-1970
(7 folders)
- Box 3
General Correspondence
1969-1971
(7 folders)
- Box 4
General Correspondence
1972-1977
(6 folders)
- Box 5
General Correspondence and Academica
1949-1969
(6 folders)
- Box 6
General Correspondence and Academica
1966-1974
(7 folders)
- Box 7
General Correspondence and Academica
1975-1982
(5 folders)
- Box 8
General Correspondence and Academica
1983-1985
(5 folders)
- Box 9
General Correspondence and Academica
1986-1989
(6 folders)
- Box 10
Correspondence with Dr. Edwin (Ed) Popper,
New York City
1950s-1980s
- Box 10
Correspondence with Miss Ramona L. Bishko,
Syracuse, New York
1950s-1980s
- Box 10
Correspondence with with Editor, Prof.
Sylvia Thrupp, Comparative Studies in Society and
History
1957-1958
- Box 10
Correspondence with with Prof. Gary
Dunbar, UCLA--Geography
1958-1970
- Box 10
Correspondence with External and Intra
University
1960s
- Box 10
Correspondence with with Claudio
Sanchez-Albornoz and Hilda Grassotti. Plus
Correspondence re Claudio's,
Espana Enigma
Historica 1960s-1970s
- Box 10
Correspondence with Student--Graduate and
Undergraduate
1960s-1970s
- Box 10
Correspondence with with Prof. Lewis Hanke
and Family
1960s-1980s
- Box 10
Correspondence with with Prof. Charles R.
Boxer, University of London
1963-1964
- Box 11
Correspondence--with Graduate
Students--Memorabilia re: Oral Exams, Job
Recommendations, etc. for Graduate Students
1964-1976
- Box 11
Correspondence with with Prof. Antonio
Henrique de Oliveira Marques,University of Lisbon,
Portugal
1965-1966
- Box 11
Correspondence General--Plus Material re:
Fifth Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 1970
1968-1970
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--R.
Pride
[1970]-1973
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--James
Brodman
[1970]-1976
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral
Students--Lawrence J. McCrank
1970-1976
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--Lorna
Jury Gladstone
[1971-1977]
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--Thomas
C. Thurston
[1974]
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--Heath
Dillard
[1975]-1979
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--James
F. Powers
1976-1977
- Box 11
Correspondence During Preparation of
Doctoral Dissertations with Doctoral Students--M.C.
Fernandez
[1976]-1977
-
Subseries: A: Family
Correspondence
- Box 12
Charles Julian Bishko to Lucretia
1930-1933
(8 folders)
- Box 13
Charles Julian Bishko to Lucretia
1934-1938
(7 folders)
- Box 14
Lucretia to Charles Julian Bishko
1930-1934
(8 folders)
- Box 15
Lucretia to Charles Julian Bishko
1934-1941
(7 folders)
- Box 16
Bishko Family and Miscellany
1931-1988
(6 folders)
- Box 19
Latin American Studies--Text and Materials
for Edition of 16th Century Treatise: Pedro Malferit
(d. 1566),
De Bello Inferendo Et
Conferendis Legibus Hominibus Novi
Orbis (Spain's Title to, and Just War in, The
New World), Sent Charles Julian Bishko by Prof.Lewis
Hanke
[1936]
- Box 19
Correspondence with Prof. Lewis Hanke,
University of Texas
[1938,1949-1956]
- Box 19
Latin American History (1947-1953),
History 11: Colonial Era; History 12: National Era.
(First UVA Course in Latin American History, Dept. of
History)
ca.1947-1953
- Box 19
Latin American Studies (Extracurricular
Activities), Weekly Radio Talks on Latin America by
Charles Julian Bishko, 1948. (Series 13 Commentaries
via U.Va. Radio Station)
1948
- Box 19
Correspondence with Prof. Lewis Hanke
[1948-1971]
- Box 19
Spanish and Latin American Studies,
1955-1967--Correspondence: with Editors,
Hispanic American Hist. Rev.,
Amer. Hist. Rev. ; with Individuals; Materials
on Conference on Latin American History, American
Historical Association.
[1949]-1967
- Box 19
Correspondence with
Hispanic American Historical
Review and Other Related Materials on Latin
American History
ca.1950-1970
- Box 20
American Historical Association--Annual
Meeting, 1953, Chicago, (Correspondence on Session
Participation)
1953
- Box 20
Review Materials, with Ensuing
Correspondence: C.M. Lewis, S.J. and A.J. Loomis,
S.J, "The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia,
1570-1572,"
Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography , 1951
[1953-1954]
- Box 20
American Historical
Review --Correspondence Regarding Quarterly
Bibliography Section Spain and Portugal
1954-1961
- Box 20
American Historical Association--Annual
Meeting, 1955, Washington, D.C.--Correspondence
Relating to Session on Medieval History
1955
- Box 20
Latin American Studies--Program on the
History of America, 1956; Conference on Latin
American History, 1966
1956,[1967]
- Box 20
American Historical Association--
American Historical
Review --Correspondence Relating to Quarterly
Spanish-Portuguese Bibliography Section, A.H.R.
[1957]-1973
- Box 20
Paper, with Related Materials, Presented
to: Second International Congress of Historians of
U.S. and Mexico, Austin, Texas, Nov., 1958--"The
Castilian as Plainsman"
1958
- Box 20
Prince Henry the Navigator and the
Portuguese Discoveries, (1) Quincentenary of 1960:
Exhibit in Alderman Library by Charles Julian Bishko
with Prof. Gary Dunbar and William Runge, 1960; (2)
Charles Julian Bishko Evaluation of MS Book by Prof.
Bailey Diffie,
Portugal Overseas Before
1415 , 1959
1959-1960
- Box 20
Lecture: "The Spanishness of Roman Spain"
(Presented to U.Va. Classics Club, 27 March 1961)
1961
- Box 20
Latin American Studies--Correspondence
1969-1970
[1962-1964]
- Box 20
Appraisal for Rockefeller Foundation of MS
Book by Antonio Antelo,
Documentos Para La Historia De
La Cultura , 1963--Related Correspondence
1963
- Box 20
Papers Relating to Lecture by Prof.
Philippe Wolff, University of Toulouse--"Medieval
Catalonia"
1963
- Box 20
American Historical Association--Service
as Member Program Committee; AHA Annual Meeting,
1964; Correspondence and Related Materials
1964
(2 folders)
- Box 21
Latin American Studies--Correspondence,
1965-1966, Relating to Fourth Centenary of Fray
Bartolome' De Las Casas
1965-1966
- Box 21
Organizing Committee on, and Center for,
Latin American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
1965-1969
- Box 21
Extracurricular Activities--Sixth
International Colloqium on Luso-Brazilian Studies,
1966, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. And in New
York City, Hispanic Society of America, Columbia
University. Materials on Attendance
1966
- Box 21
American Historical Association--Annual
Meeting, 1966, Session on "The City in Spanish and
Portuguese History"--Charles Julian Bishko Discussant
1966
- Box 21
Chapter, "The Spanish and Portuguese
Reconquest, 1095-1492" in K.M. Setton, Ed.,
A History of the
Crusades , Madison, Wisc., 1975: vol. III,
396-456--Correspondence with vol. III Editor, H.W.
Hazard, 1972-74
1967-1974
- Box 21
Early Medieval Spain--Correspondence
Regarding MSS on Early Medieval Galicia of Prof.
Harold Livermore, University of British Columbia
1968
- Box 21
American Historical
Association--Conference on Latin American History:
Preparation of Iberian and African Antecedents
Section: Editorial Contribution to
Latin America: A Guide to the
Historical Literature (Austin, Texas, 1971)
1971
- Box 22
Conference on Latin American History,
1972; 1971 Bolton Prize Committee, Charles Julian
Bishko Chairman; Correspondence, etc.
1971-[1973]
- Box 22
Ier Congreso De Historica De
Andalucia --Correspondence Regarding Paper
Presentation, "The Andalusian Municipal Mestas in the
14th and 16th Centuries" plus Programs
1976
- Box 22
American Historical Association, Annual
Meeting, 1976, Session on "The Spanish Nobility in
the Early Modern Period"--Chaired by Charles Julian
Bishko
1976
- Box 22
Extracurricular Activities--Lecture by
John H. Elliot, March, 1977, "Olivares: Spanish
Statesman"--Elliot, then Prof. Princeton Institute
Advanced Studies; Secretly Elected Regius Professor
Modern History, Oxford University, (Organized,
Presided Over, by Charles Julian Bishko)
1976-1977
- Box 22
Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies--Chairmanship Session on
"Interculturation in Medieval Spain"--Baltimore, 8-9
April, 1976, plus Related Items (1976-78) plus
Academy of American Research Historians on Medieval
Spain
1976-1978
- Box 22
Book:
Spanish and Portuguese
Monastic History , 600-1300, Published by
Variorum Reprints, London, 1984--Correspondence with
John Smedley, Editor, and Related Materials
1982-1985
- Box 22
Evaluation of MS of Book,
Alfonso VI , by Prof.
Bernard Reilly,
1985-1986
- Box 23
College of Arts and Sciences--Institute
For Research in the Social Sciences; Current Research
Plans, Applications, Grants to Charles Julian Bishko
1938-1964
- Box 23
University of Virginia--World War
II--Civil Defense, 1942, Fourth Zone, Precinct 2:
Charlottesville Area including University Ave. to
Rugby Rd., to Virginia Ave.,to 10th St., to
University Ave. Charles Julian Bishko and A.P.
Fernbach, Wardens in Charge; Post at 10 Elliewood
Ave. (esp. Blackout Trials)
1942-[1943]
(2 folders)
- Box 23
College of Arts and Sciences--Pre
Meteorological Training Program, 1943, World War
II--U.S. Air Force Detachment, General Materials;
Charles Julian Bishko Section Notes
1943
- Box 23
Committee on Organization of Department of
Foreign Affairs
1944-1945
- Box 23
Curriculum Reform, 1944, Program and
Papers of Faculty "Young Turks" Group of Reformers
1944,[1947]
- Box 23
Committee on Status of Department of
Geography; General Materials; Correspondence with
Prof. Gary Dunbar (Geog.),then in Nigeria
[1947,1961]-1966
- Box 23
Report of the Athletic Committee, "The
Gooch Report"
1951
- Box 23
Material Relating to Faculty Meeting
Debates, to Faculty Council Replacing Faculty
Meeting--Extended Remarks Charles Julian Bishko to
Faculty (1954); Related Materials
1953-1957
- Box 24
University of Virginia--Miscellaneous
Official Publications
[1953-1985]
- Box 24
College of Arts and Sciences--Dean William
Duran's Special Committee on Charge of Plagiarism
against Member, Dept. of Germanic Languages--Charles
Julian Bishko Chairman--[Restricted]
1956
- Box 24
Faculty Self-Study Committee, "The Finger
Committee"
[1958-1964]
- Box 24
The Research Committee, Charles Julian
Bishko as Member, Secretary, Chairman
1958-[1977]
- Box 24
Services on President's and Deans
Committees, University Center in Virginia, Richmond
[1960-1962]
- Box 24
University of Virginia: Assembly of
Professors Committee on Contractual
Relations--Confidential Materials
[1962-1970]
(7 folders). [Restricted]
- Box 24
College of Arts and Sciences--Self-Study
Evaluation Program, Prof. Frank Finger, Chairman;
Charles Julian Bishko Member; Materials and Final
Report
1963
- Box 24
University of Virginia--The
Senate--Materials Relating to Membership; 1965-1969,
1974-1978
1965-1974
- Box 24
College of Arts and Sciences--Service,
Appointment Committee for Professorship of Religion
1966
- Box 24
Services on University Committees--Summer
Grants; etc.
1967-1968
- Box 24
University of Virginia--Pres. Shannon's
Special Committee on the Admission of Women to the
College of Arts and Sciences (1967-1968)--Minutes by
Charles Julian Bishko, Secretary; Final Report of
Committee, Nov. 1968
1967-1968
- Box 24
Report by Committee on Contractual
Relations on the Assembly of Professors, University
of Virginia, Concerning Certain Issues Presented in
the Case of Professor Lawrence Cranberg, Department
of Physics, University of Virginia, Submitted 14
February 1969--[Restricted]
[1968]-1969
- Box 24
Report of the Committee on Contractual
Relations of the Assembly of Professors Concerning
the Issue of Academic Freedom in the Case of
Professor Lawrence Cranberg, Department of Physics,
Submitted 6 July 1969--[Restricted]
1969
- Box 24
University of Virginia Alumni Association:
Distinguished Professor Award Committee, Service as
Representative, College of Arts and
Sciences--[Restricted]
1970
- Box 24
College of Arts and Sciences--Special
Committee Reports
1970
- Box 24
University of Virginia--Pres. Hereford's
Resignation from Farmington Country Club,
1976--Papers from Pro-Presidential College Faculty
Support Group for Freedom of Choice
[1975]-1976
-
Subseries: A: Corcoran Department
of History: Departmental Records, Correspondence,
Personalia, Awards, Honors, Miscellaneous Letters and
Papers
- Box 25
Corcoran Department of History--History
C7 (later 119-120),The Origins of Europe (given
various years ca. 1939-1950)
1939-1950
- Box 25
Medieval Academy of America--Service as
Councillor, 1951
[1939],1951-[1954]
- Box 25
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers
1940s-1980s
- Box 25
Book:
Charting
Democracy with Prof. A.P.
Fernbach--Correspondence with Publishers, etc.
1947-1951
- Box 25
Corcoran Department of
History--Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence
1950-1970
- Box 25
Communications from Chairmen; Service
on Departmental Committees; Reports; Related
Correspondence
1953-1976
- Box 25
The Medieval Frontier, Paper Delivered
at American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
Washington, 18 Dec. 1955; Ensuing Correspondence
with Prof. Owen Lattimore, Johns Hopkins
University, 1956; J.L.M. Gulley, University
College, London, 1958
1955-1959
- Box 25
Corcoran Department of History--Annual
Reports on Publications and Research by Charles
Julian Bishko plus Other Professional Activities
1957-1975
- Box 25
Appointments Committees--[Restricted]
1960s-1970s
- Box 25
Charles Julian Bishko Service on
Departmental Appointments
Committees--Correspondence, Reports,
etc.--[Restricted]
1960s-1970s
- Box 25
Southern Historical Association, Annual
Meeting, Asheville, N.C.,1963--Correspondence and
Related Materials
1961-1964
- Box 26
Contract and Correspondence with John
Wiley and Sons, N.Y., Relating to Projected Book:
The Frontier in Medieval
History 1962-1963
- Box 26
Corcoran Department of
History--Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee,
1970; Committee on Appointments and Promotions,
1972
[1962],1970-1972
- Box 26
Extracurricular Activities--Lecture by
Prof. Manning Clark, National University
Australia, Canberra. Organized, Presided Over by
Charles Julian Bishko, "Australia, Past and
Present"
1963
- Box 26
Projected Book:
The Frontier in Medieval
History --Contract and Termination with
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1963-1971
- Box 26
Corcoran Department of History--Search
for Projected Appointment in Iberian
History--[Restricted]
1966-1967
- Box 26
University of Virginia Alumni
Association: Distinguished Professor Award to
Charles Julian Bishko, May 1968 plus Life
Membership, Correspondence Related, etc.
1968
- Box 26
Extracurricular Activities: Talk to
Medieval Circle at
Inaugural Meeting: 24 October 1968--"The Saint
Antoninus Cult at Pamiers and Cluny's Expansion in
Spain"
1968
- Box 26
Notes: "Moby Dick in the NA"--The
Oceanic Frontier--
1968
- Box 26
Appointment to University of Virginia
Sesquicentennial Associateship
[1968],1969-1970
- Box 26
University of Virginia-- The Medieval
Circle
1969-1970
- Box 26
Correspondence with Prof. Emilio Saez
Sanchez, University of Barcelona and C.S.I.C. plus
Related Correspondence with his Student, Srta.
Milagros Rivera
1969-1982
- Box 26
Correspondence with Students
1970s
(2 folders)--[Restricted]
- Box 26
Correspondence General (1978-1980) plus
Student Letters (1970s)
1970s,1978-1980
(2 folders)
- Box 26
Liberty Hill Subdivision (Albemarle,
Va.) vs. University of Virginia--Materials
Relating to Proposed Access Road via Deerpath,
Bellair-Liberty Hill to Proposed University
College at Birdwood
1971
- Box 27
Appointment to Commonwealth
Professorship of History, June
1971
- Box 27
George Alfred Henty
Collection--Correspondence and
Materials,1972-1980. MS of Lecture "Victorian
Womanhood in the Boy's Historical Novelist G.A.
Henty"--(Presented to the Fortnightly Club,
Charlottesville, 9 May 1978)
[1971],1972-1980
- Box 27
Corcoran Department of
History--Memorial Resolutions Presented to Faculty
of Arts and Sciences: Prof. T. Cary Johnson
(1972); Prof. Bernard Mayo (1979)
19,721,979
- Box 27
Appointments Committee-[Restricted]
1975
- Box 27
Symposia on Comparative
Frontiers--University of Oklahoma
1975-1978
- Box 27
Disposal of Books from Personal
Collection
[1978],1979-1981
- Box 27
General Correspondence
1978-1980
(2 folders)
- Box 27
Book:
Studies in Medieval Spanish
Frontier History , Variorum Reprints:
London, 1980--Correspondence with Editor John
Smedley, et. al.
1978-1982
- Box 27
Medieval Academy of America--
Speculum ;
Correspondence with Editor Regarding MSS Critique
1985
-
Subseries: B: Corcoran Department
of History: History Courses Offered, Lectures,
Outlines, Assignments, Gradebooks
- Box 28
Corcoran Department of History--Class
Gradebooks--[Restricted]
1938-1948
- Box 28
Lectures and Related Materials from
History B 5-6,9,10: Ancient History
1938-ca.1962
(2 folders)
- Box 28
History 3-4(B1) Medieval History,
Sessions 1938-ca.1965; History HIEU 224, Thought
and Society in the High Middle Ages,
1971-1972--Lectures and Related Materials
1938-1972
(3 folders)
- Box 29
University of Virginia, College of Arts
and Sciences, Corcoran Department of
History--History 111-112 (517-518): Medieval
Civilization, 1938-1977--Lectures and Related
Materials--Second Term
1938-1977
(3 folders)
- Box 29
History 5-6: Modern European History
(1500-1945)--Lectures and Related Materials,
Sessions of 1940s-1950s
1940s-1950s
(2 folders)
- Box 30
Corcoran Department of
History--Assignment Sheets and Report Instruction
1940-1970s
(2 folders)
- Box 30
Class Gradebooks
[1946],1949-1977
(3 folders)-[Restricted]
- Box 30
History HIEU 817: Medieval
Civilization: Outlines on Medieval Law, Feudal and
Roman
1973-1975
- Box 30
History 111-112 (517-518): Medieval
Civilization, 1938-1977--Lectures and Related
Materials--First Term
1938-1977
(2 folders)
- Box 31
Corcoran Department of History--Course:
The Medieval Frontier, 1939-1976, (History
137-138, 817-818, 125-126) Assignments and
Examinations
1939-1976
- Box 31
History 110 or 112, 119-120, 222
Medieval Towns--Lectures and Related Materials
1939-1977
- Box 31
Course History C9: Medieval
England--once offered; Session of 1942-1943
1942-1943
- Box 31
Course Offerings (once only): History
133, Seminar on Europe Since 1815 (in loco O.J.
Hale) 1945--Honors Seminar, ca. 1969?
1945, ca.1969
- Box 32
Miscellaneous [Restricted] Material
1938-[1986]
(5 folders)
- Box 33
Miscellaneous [Restricted] Material
1956-1970
(8 folders)
- Box 34
Miscellaneous [Restricted] Material
[1968]-1975
(9 folders)
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