Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline - Literature and Philology

List of contents

Chapter 1 Laurence Nowell, Carl T. Berkhout; Chapter 2 George Hickes (1642–1715), Richard L. Harris; Chapter 3 ÁRni Magnússon (1663–1730 ), ólafur Halldórsson; Chapter 4 Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), Milton McC. Gatch; Chapter 5 Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), Kathryn Sutherland; Chapter 6 Benjamin Thorpe (1782–1870), Phillip Pulsiano; Chapter 7 The Brothers Grimm, Maria Dobozy; Chapter 8 Rasmus Rask (1787–1832), Kirsten Wolf; Chapter 9 Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), Derek Pearsall; Chapter 10 Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), Charlotte Brewer; Chapter 11 Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Gerard J. Brault; Chapter 12 Henry Sweet (1845–1912), Michael K. C. MacMahon; Chapter 13 Eduard Sievers (1850–1932), †John C. Pope; Chapter 14 Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen (1857–1940), Hildegard L.C. Tristram; Chapter 15 Hippolyte Delehaye (1859–1841), Thomas J. Heffernan; Chapter 16 Alfred Jeanroy (1859–1953), William D. Paden; Chapter 17 George Lyman Kittredge (1860–1941), †John C. McGalliard; Chapter 18 Joseph Bédier (1864–1938), William W. Kibler; Chapter 19 Axel Olrik (1864–1917), Lars Hemmingsen; Chapter 20 Andreas Heusler (1865–1940), Heinrich Beck; Chapter 21 John Matthews Manly (1865–1940) Edith Rickert (1871–1938), Elizabeth Scala; Chapter 22 Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866–1954), Kathleen Ashley; Chapter 23 Michele Barbi (1867–1941), Christopher Kleinhenz; Chapter 24 Max FÖrster (1869–1954), Hans Sauer; Chapter 25 Ramón MenéNdez Pidal (1869–1968), †Colin Smith; Chapter 26 Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Klaus Ostheeren; Chapter 27 Roger Sherman Loomis (1887–1966), Sigmund Eisner; Chapter 28 Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), †Lowry Nelson; Chapter 29 C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), Derek Brewer; Chapter 30 Jean Frappier (1900–1974 ), Raymond Cormier; Chapter 31 N.R. Ker (1908–1982), Kevin S. Kiernan; Chapter 32 Rosemary Woolf (1925–1978), Helga Spevack-Husmann;

About the author

Helen Damico (University of New Mexico), Fennema Donald, Karmen Lenz

Summary

The second of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship, presenting biographical essays on the scholars whose work has shaped medieval studies since the 16th century. This volume covers the lives of 35 individuals whose subjects were the languages and literatures of Europe between 500 and 1500.

Product details

• Assisted by: Helen Damico (Editor), Damico Helen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780815328902
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2890-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 1080 g
• Series: Garland Library of Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Linguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Historiography, CE period up to c 1500, Historiography, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval