Word: medievalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Energetic Medievalist Gomez Moreno was exuberant. Said he: "Before this discovery, we could only guess what had been accomplished in the arts of weaving, embroidery, lace-making and knitting in the 13th Century. Now, people can see and actually touch the entire outfit of a 13th Century man or woman...
Immediately after the destruction of the abbey, a group of U.S. sponsors had organized as the Friends of Monte Cassino. They included Swarthmore's ex-President Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Harvard's classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten...
...year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...
Died. Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist; in Boston...