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.

John O'Donovan (1806-1861)
John O'Donovan (1806-1861)

Author: Patricia Boyne

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 192

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John O'Donovan was an important figure in Irish intellectual history. He translated many old Irish manuscripts, collecting place names and investigating other antiquities.

Samuel Ferguson
Samuel Ferguson

Author: Peter Denman

Publisher: Irish Literary Studies

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a critical assessment and examination of the prose and poetry of Ireland's Samuel Ferguson. It presents a clear understanding of the shape and purpose of Ferguson's career as a writer, which extended over half a century. The scholarly sources from which Ferguson extracted many of his themes are carefully examined, as are the times during which Ferguson lived and wrote. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Irish literature, and the politics and history of nineteenth century Ireland. CONTENTS Introduction; Early Periodical Writings; Hibernian Nights' Entertainments DEGREESR and Other Fiction; The 1840s: A New Beginning; Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems I; Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems II; Congal; Poems; Passing On; Notes; Samuel Ferguson: A Chronology; A Checklist of Samuel Ferguson's Published Writings; Bibliography; Index DEGREESR. Irish Literary Studies