1st Edition

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

Edited By Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil Copyright 1995
380 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years. Their subject was Europe between 500 and 1500, and they labored to define that protean and multinational culture. Each of them pioneered or revolutionized traditional views on fields such as diplomatics... Read more
Introduction to Volume 1, Giles Constable * Jean Bolland (1596-1665) and the Early Bollandists, Donald Sullivan * Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), Rutherford Aris * Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), Susan Nicassio * Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), Patricia Craddock * Georg Waitz (1813-1886), Robert L. Benson and Loren J. Weber * William Stubbs (1825-1901), James Campbell * Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), Edward Peters * L opold Delisle (1826-1910), David Bates * Henry Adams (1838-1918), Karl F. Morrison * Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906), Robert Brentano * Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), Bryce Lyon * Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937), Sally Vaughn * Lynn Thorndike (1882-1965), Michael H. Shank * Marc Bloch (1886-1944), Carole Fink * Eileen Power (1889-1940), Ellen Jacobs * Claudio S nchez-Albornoz y Mendui-a (1893-1984), James F. Powers * Percy Ernst Schramm (1894-1970), J nos Bak * Ernst H. Kantorowicz (1895-1963), Robert E. Lerner * Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), Norman Roth * Dorothy Whitelock (1901-1982), Henry Loyn * George Ostrogorsky (1902-1976), Barissa Krekic * Beryl Smalley (1905-1984), Henrietta Leyser * Gustave E. von Grunebaum (1909-1972), Franz Rosenthal * Index

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