Bennett David Hill (1934–2005) was a historian, a Benedictine monk and an author.
Hill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1934 and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was ten.
He earned advanced degrees from Harvard University (A.M. in 1958) and Princeton (Ph.D. in 1963).
Hill taught history at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
[1] Hill was the author of English Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century (1968),[2][3] Church and State in the Middle Ages (1970),[4] and articles in Analecta Cisterciensia, New Catholic Encyclopedia, The American Benedictine Review and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages.