Word: medievalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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English Professor Derek Pearsall, also a medievalist who says he came to Harvard to work with Bloomfield, praised the professor's publications, "The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept" and "Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse" in particular...
...riding crashed in 1982--and this mode of transportation may help explain why Gardner was never fully accepted by the academic and critical circles of his time. Some critics, citing Gardner's talent for characterizing the physical detail and philosophical outlook of Middle America, classed this medievalist-turned-author among the top American writers of the 20th century. Many others, however, found that beneath a flashy surface humour and topicality, Gardner's works lacked the depth of Ulysses or The Magic Mountain...
...appointment, the result of the English Department's international search for a medievalist, comes at a time when Harvard's coverage of the field "has gotten rather thin," Porte said...
...History Department is without a tenured medievalist. Last year Lea Professor of Medieval History David M. Herlihy accepted a permanent position at Brown University, and a second tenured medieval historian, Jiles Constable, left Harvard the year before that...
...common. All six are to a greater or lesser degree about Great men, be they poets, scientists, apostles or philosophers, and their Great Ideas. Ordinary human beings appear fleetingly: as an historical abstraction in a Gov paper and in passing references to "the common man" in the above-mentioned medievalist paper. The only women even mentioned are two Marys (as possible mothers) in the essay on Jesus' brother, and some of Andrew Marvell's mythic nymphs...