Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824068943)

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.

Author: Helen Damico
ISBN-10: 0824068947
ISBN-13: 9780824068943
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1995
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.79w x 1.12d