Medieval Scholarship

The second of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship, presenting biographical essays on the scholars whose work has shaped medieval studies since the 16th century. This volume covers the lives of 35 individuals whose subjects were the languages and literatures of Europe between 500 and 1500. First published in 1998. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 2: Literature and Philology is the second volume of three that present Biographies of scholars whose work influenced the study of the Middle Ages and transformed it into the discipline known as Medieval Studies. Volume 2 provides thirty~two accounts of men and women from the sixteenth century to the twentieth who developed medieval philology and literature into a profession. Their subject deals with the languages and literatures of greater Europe from about the seventh century through the fifteenth and includes Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic, and Romance nations.