| Description | This volume collects 72 biographical essays and memoirs tracing the history of the woman medievalist, starting form the eighteenth century. Focusing on women born before 1935, the book aims to illuminate the lives and careers of women who have helped build a field or discipline or an area or a specific subject in medieval studies, ranging from literature, philology, history, archaeology, theology, to philosophy and art history. The essays include personal reflections by their author on the subject's role in medieval studies and summaries of their publications. The women involved are - a.o.: Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756), Anna Jameson (1794-1860), Jessie L. Weston (1850-1928), Lina Eckenstein (1857-1931), Mary Bateson (1865-1906), Elise Richter (1865-1943), Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1866-1933), Caroline F. E. Spurgeon (1869-1942), Georgiana Goddard King (1871-1939), “Miss Rickert of Vassar” and Edith Rickert at the University of Chicago (1871-1938), Mildred K. Pope (1872-1956), Bertha Haven Putnam (1872-1960), Nellie Neilson (1873-1947), Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877-1932), Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880-1976), Hope Emily Allen (1883-1960), Laura Hibbard Loomis (1883-1960), Helen Cam (1885-1968), Grace Frank (1886-1978), Margaret Rickert (1888-1973), Charlotte D'Evelyn (1889-1977), Eileen Edna Le Poer Power (1889-1940), Helen Waddell (1889-1965), Yvonne Rihouët Rokseth (1890-1948), Elisabeth Busse-Wilson (1890-1974), Nora Kershaw Chadwick (1891-1972), Maude Violet Clarke (1892-1935), Joan Evans (1893-1977), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), Doris Mary Stenton (1894-1971), Helen M. Roe (1895-1988), Suzanne Solente (1895-1978), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896-1989), Vera Ivanova-Mavrodinova (1896-1987) and Vasilka Tapkova-Zaimova (1924-), Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986), Pearl Kibre (1900-1985), Dorothy Whitelock (1901-1982), Ruth J. Dean (1902-2003), James Bruce Ross (1902-1995), Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny (1903-1991), Christine A. E. M. Mohrmann (1903-1988), Mary Dominica Legge (1905-1986), Anneliese Maier (1905-1971), Beryl Smalley (1905-1984), Cora Elizabeth Lutz (1906-1985), Helaine Newstead (1906-1981), Margaret Ogden (1909-1988), Régine Pernoud (1909-1998), María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910-1962), Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991), Rachel Bromwich (1915-), Jane Hayward (1918-1994), Nina G. Garsoïan (1923-), Elizabeth Salter (1925-1980), Rosemary Estelle Woolf (1925-1978), Elisabeth Gössmann (1928-), Rosemary Cramp (1929-), Benedicta Ward, S.L.G. (1933-), Joan M. Ferrante (1936-), Marcia L. Colish (1937-). |
