Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline
Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline

Author: Helen Damico

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1317732014

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First published in 1998. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 2: Literature and Philology is the second volume of three that present Biographies of scholars whose work influenced the study of the Middle Ages and transformed it into the discipline known as Medieval Studies. Volume 2 provides thirty~two accounts of men and women from the sixteenth century to the twentieth who developed medieval philology and literature into a profession. Their subject deals with the languages and literatures of greater Europe from about the seventh century through the fifteenth and includes Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic, and Romance nations.

Medievalism and the Academy
Medievalism and the Academy

Author: Leslie J. Workman

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780859915328

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The first of a two-volume examination of medievalism and academic scholarship, this collection is divided into four sections: Canonizing Chaucer, Antiquarian loomings, Medievalism, medieval studies, and Medieval studies at the millennium. Medievalism, the "continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground between artisticand popular constructions of the middle ages and the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval invention) in the face of technological assau Contributors: DAVID O. MATTHEWS, STEVE ELLIS, ANTONIA WARD, GRAHAM PARRY, MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS, ANNA SMOL, DAVID ALLAN, MATILDE MATEO, MARYA DEVOTO, ULRIKE WIETHAUS, STEPHEN STEELE, JAMES KENNEDY, WILLIAM CALIN, JESSE D. HURLBUT, JOAN GRENIER-WINTHER, WILLIAM PADEN

Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Author: Clare Broome Saunders

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-02-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 023061857X

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Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.

Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn

Author: William H. Spilsbury

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 986

ISBN-13: 3382306395

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.