The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is happy to announce the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive.
Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown (“Peggy”), who died in August 2024 at age 92, honored the Penn Libraries with a bequest to establish an archive for the professional papers of medieval historians and endowed an archivist position to develop and manage it.
Launched in 2025, the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive is now collecting the papers of prominent medievalists and making these collections available for in-person research through the Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center in Philadelphia, PA.
The archive’s website provides links to the finding aids for all processed collections along with information about the types of material collected.
Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive
Available for research (March 2026)
- Mary-Jo Arn papers
- Marcia L. Colish papers
- Kibre family papers (Pearl and Adele Kibre)
- Edward Peters papers
- Thomas G. Waldman papers
Recently acquired
- Peter Brown papers
- Barbara A. Shailor papers
To discuss possible donations to the Medieval Historians Archive, please contact the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Archivist, Meg Phillips, at phillip7@upenn.edu.
