Medieval and historiographical essays
Subtitle: in honor of James Westfall Thompson
By: edited by James Lea Cate and Eugene N. Anderson.
Contributors: Cate, James Lea, 1899-  , ed.; Anderson, Eugene Newton, joint ed.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Thompson, James Westfall, 1869-1941; Middle Ages -- History; Historiography
Notes: A study of twelfth-century interest in the antiquities of Rome, by J. B. Ross. Bernward of Hildesheim, by F. J. Tschan. The long tradition: a study in fourteenth-century medical deontology, by Mary C. Welborn.--Historiographical essays: Meinecke's Ideengeschichte and the crisis in historical thinking, by E. N. Anderson. Justus Möser's approach to history, by W. J. Bossenbrook. Theodore Roosevelt, historian, by Raymond C. Miller. Kautsky and the materialist interpretation of history, by S. K. Padover. The Varangians in Russion history, by S. R. Tompkins.--Bibliography of the works of James Westfall Thompson (p. 493-499)
Table of contents: title: Medieval essays: A critic of the fourteenth century: St. Birgitta of Sweden, by Conrad Bergendoff. The beginning of the struggle between the regular and the secular clergy, by Helen R. Brittermann. The church and market reform in England during the reign of Henry III, by J. L. Cate. The origin of the town of Subiaco, by Geneva Drinkwater. The Van der Molen, commission merchants of Antwerp: trade with Italy, 1538-44, by Florence Edler. The Palestine pilgrimage of Henry the Lion, by Einar Joranson. The south German reichsstaedte in the late middle ages, by Ernest Lauer. Medieval medical dictionaries and glossaries, by L. C. MacKinney. The emergence of councilarisn, by J. T. McNeill.