Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline : Literature and Philology

This is the second of a three-volume set that presents biographical essays on the scholars whose work has defined medieval studies. Covers 35 scholars from the 16th to the 20th centuries whose subjects were the languages and literatures of Europe between 500 and 1500. The selections cover topics such as Chaucer, Dante, Arthurian Romance, manuscript and archival studies, folklore, dialectology, phonology, and cultural history. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.