Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: History (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 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 (Mabillon); economic, social, and constitutional history (Power, Pirenne, Bloch, Stubbs, Waitz, Whitelock, Maitland); manuscript and archival studies (Delisle, Muratori); Jewish history and the history of Islam and Byzantium (von Grunebaum, Ostrogorsky); symbology and intellectual history (Kantorowicz, Schramm, Smalley); general and cultural history (Gibbon, Adams, Haskins, S nchez-Albornoz); and ecclesiastical history (Bolland, Lea) and the history of magic and science (Thorndike). Some of the scholars pioneered comparative and interdisciplinary studies; all published work that is still essential to our understanding of the past and, more important, the present. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents PREFACE INTRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS CONTRIBUTORS JEAN BOLLAND (1596–1665) AND THE EARLY BOLLANDISTS JEAN MABILLON (1632–1707) LODOVICO ANTONIO MURATORI (1672–1750) EDWARD GIBBON (1737–1794) GEORG WAITZ (1813–1886) WILLIAM STUBBS (1825–1901) HENRY CHARLES LEA (1825–1909) LÉOPOLD DELISLE (1826–1910) HENRY ADAMS (1838–1918) FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND (1850–1906) HENRI PIRENNE (1862–1935) CHARLES HOMER HASKINS (1870–1937) LYNN THORNDIKE (1882–1965) MARC BLOCH (1886–1944) EILEEN POWER (1889–1940) CLAUDIO SÁNCHEZ–ALBORNOZ Y MENDUIÑA (1893–1984) PERCY ERNST SCHRAMM (1894–1970) ERNST H. KANTOROWICZ (1895–1963) SALO WITTMAYER BARON (1895–1989) DOROTHY WHITELOCK (1901–1982) GEORGE OSTROGORSKY (1902–1976) BERYL SMALLEY (1905–1984) GUSTAVE E. VON GRUNEBAUM (1909–1972) INDEX 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. The English humanist and antiquary Laurence Nowell was born in 1530, or perhaps early in 1531, at Read Hall near the village of Whalley in northern Lancashire. v. 1. History v. 2. Literature and philology.