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Title

Interpreters of early medieval Britain / edited by Michael Lapidge.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Lapidge, Michael.
• British Academy.

Description

x, 565 p. : ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically." "Through the careers and achievements of these influential scholars these essays shed light on studies ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, through Arabic, Persian and Turkish, to Indology, Chinese and Japanese."--Jacket.

Series Statement

[British Academy centenary monographs]

Uniform Title

British Academy centenary monographs.

Alternative Title

Proceedings of the British Academy.

Subject

• 449-1999
• Historians > Great Britain > Biography
• Medievalists > Great Britain > Biography
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Great Britain > Historiography. > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Series statement on jacket.
• Obituaries of 28 fellows of the British Academy most of which were originally published in the Proceedings of the British Academy.

Bibliography (note)

• "Printed bibliographies of scholars whose obituaries are included in the present volume": p. [553]-555.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Michael Lapidge -- I. Whitley Stokes, 1830-1909 / Kuno Meyer -- II. Walter William Skeat, 1835-1912 / Michael Lapidge -- III. Sir John Rhys, 1840-1915 / John Morris-Jones -- IV. Henry Bradley, 1845-1923 / Michael Lapidge -- V. Charles Plummer, 1851-1927 / P. S. Allen, F. M. Stenton and R. I. Best -- VI. Arthur Sampson Napier, 1853-1916 / Neil Ripley Ker / Edited by Michael Lapidge -- VII. Joseph Wright, 1855-1930 / Charles Harding Firth -- VIII. W[illiam] P[aton] Ker, 1855-1923 / R. W. Chambers -- IX. Sir Israel Gollancz, 1863-1930 / Frederic Kenyon -- X. Sir William Craigie, 1867-1957 / J. M. Wyllie -- XI. Hector Munro Chadwick, 1870-1947 / J. M. de Navarro -- XII. Raymond Wilson Chambers, 1874-1942 / C. J. Sisson -- XIII. Sir Allen Mawer, 1879-1942 / Frank Merry Stenton -- XIV. Sir Frank Merry Stenton, 1880-1967 / Doris M. Stenton / Edited by Michael Lapidge -- XV. Sir Ifor Williams, 1881-1965 / Idris Llewellyn Foster -- XVI. Robin Ernest William Flower, 1881-1946 / Harold Idris Bell -- XVII. Kenneth Sisam, 1887-1971 / Neil Ker -- XVIII. Bruce Dickins, 1889-1978 / R. I. Page -- XIX. Florence Elizabeth Harmer, 1890-1967 / Dorothy Whitelock -- XX. Nora Kershaw Chadwick, 1891-1972 / Kenneth Jackson -- XXI. Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick 1895-1979 / Rubert Bruce-Mitford -- XXII. Dorothy Whitelock, 1901-1982 / Henry Loyn -- XXIII. Francis Wormald, 1904-1972 / Julian Brown / Edited by Michael Lapidge -- XXIV. Neil Ripley Ker, 1908-1982 / A. I. Doyle -- XXV. Gabriel Turville-Petre, 1908-1978 / Peter Foote -- XXVI. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 1909-1991 / J. E. Caerwyn Williams -- XXVII. Peter Hunter Blair, 1912-1982 / Peter Clemoes -- XXVIII. Thomas Julian Brown, 1923-1987 / Jonathan J. G. Alexander -- App. Printed bibliographies of scholars whose obituaries are included in the present volume.

ISBN

0197262775 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2003271704

OCLC

• 50270215
• SCSB-12075403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library