Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain

Lapidge, Michael

ISBN 10: 0197262775 / ISBN 13: 9780197262771

Published by The British Academy, London, 2002

About this Item

X + [566] pp. Printed black cloth binding. Light creasing of dust jacket. Clean, white, unmarked pages, but many neatly dog eared (opened and flatened) ; British Academy Centenary Monographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 576 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain
• Publisher: The British Academy, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197262775
• ISBN 13: 9780197262771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars include Whitly Stokes, Sir John Rhys, Arthur Simpson Napier, Sir Israel Gollancz, Hector Munro Chadwick, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Ifor Williams, Kenneth Sisam, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, Dorothy Whitelock, Francis Wormald, Peter Hunter Blair, Thomas Julian Brown. The appendix lists the bibliographies of each scholar. Each obituary retains its original font and includes a photographic portrait; most were previously published in The Proceedings of the British Academy .

About the Author

Michael Lapidge is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and a Fellow of the British Academy.