Word: southern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southern was made a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and in 1972 he joined the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a foreign member...
...other degree recipients are Albert H. Gordon '23, chairman of Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc., a New York stock brokerage firm; Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England; Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer; and Marian Anderson, contralto...
...Southern's citation reads, "From the silences of history, this meticulous and discerning scholar has evoked a fresh perception of the Middle Ages...
...Richard W. Southern is a noted historian of the Middle Ages, and his books have received world-wide recognition for the quality of their scholarship...
Born in 1912 and educated at Oxford's Balliol College, Southern later studied in Paris and Munich before returning to Oxford shortly before World War II. His books include "The Making of the Middle Ages," which has been translated into several languages, "Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages," and "Medieval Humanism and Other Studies," which received the 1970 Royal Society of Literature Award...