Interpreters of early medieval Britain
By: edited by Michael Lapidge.
Contributors: Lapidge, Michael.; British Academy.
Series: [British Academy centenary monographs]
Publisher: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
Subjects: Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography; Medievalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Historiography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Proceedings of the British Academy.
Description: "The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically." "Through the careers and achievements of these influential scholars these essays shed light on studies ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, through Arabic, Persian and Turkish, to Indology, Chinese and Japanese."--Jacket.
Notes: "Printed bibliographies of scholars whose obituaries are included in the present volume": p. [553]-555.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series statement on jacket.
Obituaries of 28 fellows of the British Academy most of which were originally published in the Proceedings of the British Academy.