Joseph Strayer
His primary scholarly interests lay in the legal and administrative institutions of the kingdom of France under the Capetian monarchs, as well as England under the Norman and Angevin dynasties.Some notable scholars whom Strayer trained at Princeton include: John F. Benton, Thomas N. Bisson, Norman F. Cantor,[6] Bennett D. Hill, William Chester Jordan, Richard W. Kaeuper, and Teofilo Ruiz.Strayer's primary interests in medieval feudal institutions and kingship lay in their role in shaping the emergence of later nation-states in Europe and North America.Norman Cantor recognized three books as most important to Strayer's legacy:[9] Feudalism (1965), which summarized three decades of his research and thinking on the topic; On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (1970), in which he shows the relevance of medieval historical institutions to modern governmental institutions;[10] and The Reign of Philip the Fair (1980), representing over 30 years of archival research and the most comprehensive work on the topic in any language – other than Jean Favier's Philippe le Bel (1978).The extent of his involvement, at a time when the CIA was running covert operations to destabilize governments around the world (Iran, Brazil, Congo, Dominican Republic, Guyana and Chile), has never been fully assessed or verified.