Word: medievalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smoldering Decay. Joanne Greenberg. a Colorado housewife and part-time medievalist, spent five years digging into the historical records on the York slaughter for her first novel. The result is a fascinating and minute examination of 12th century English life. The feudal structure was beginning to decay. Paranoid religious fanaticism sapped the strength of the monastic community, and the power of the baronies was gradually being clipped by the Crown. Lack of funds postponed the start of the Third Crusade, which was expected to revive both faith and the church's fortune. As setback piled on setback, the smoldering...
Broadening Vistas. Aiding such breadth is St. Mike's proudest claim to intellectual distinction: its Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, launched by French Medievalist Etienne Gilson, who now commutes between Paris and Toronto. Generally recognized as tops of its kind in North America, the institute has produced at least 100 graduates now adding scholarly luster to U.S. Catholic philosophy departments. In addition, the university itself has set up new institutes-Slavic, Islamic, East Asian-sharply broadening St. Mike's vistas...
...Sale. Rockefeller turned the photograph over to Medievalist James J. Rorimer, who was later to be director of The Cloisters and now runs the whole Met Rorimer set out for Paris, and after months of questioning and searching, he found that the apse was not in France but in the tiny village of Fuentiduena 45 miles north of Segovia. There it had once been part of a church dedicated to St. Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather...
...friend these days. Of late, zoophilous readers have embraced a lioness (Born Free), an otter (Ring of Bright Water) and an entire menagerie (A Zoo in My Luggage). A while back, in his pre-otter period, Gavin Maxwell was out shark hunting (Harpoon at a Venture), and that confirmed medievalist, T. H. White (The Once and Future King), was engaged in the bruising task of training The Goshawk. Now snakes, perhaps the oddest pets of all, have slithered upon the literary scene in the company of a legendary eccentric, C.J.P. Ionides, the Snake Man of British East Africa...