Interpreters of early medieval Britain / edited by Michael Lapidge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lapidge, Michael.

British Academy.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Medievalists.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Historiography.

History.

Historiography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 565 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Proceedings of the British Academy.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

This collection of biographies celebrates twenty-eight outstanding scholars, women and men, all late Fellows of the British Academy, who pioneered and developed the study of the early British Isles in the period 400-1100. The range of expertise covered includes language and literature (Old English; medieval Irish and Welsh; Scandinavian), history (Scandinavian; Anglo-Saxon, including the study of diplomatic and place-names), archaeology, art history and palaeography. The memoirs also reveal the personalities of these individuals, and each is accompanied by a photographic portrait.

Notes:

Contains "obituaries, for the most part reprinted from Proceedings of the British Academy"-Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0197262775

OCLC:

50270215