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...cups. Medievalist White has small use for the modern world, and bitterly resents Britain's decline. He is likely to poke a horny forefinger into the nearest American chest and hiss dramatically, "You pinched my bloody empire from me." A tormented man, by turns merry and melancholy, Tim White admits to a lifelong inferiority complex. Spurred by fear, he pushed himself into physical adventure. He has piloted a plane, learned to skindive with ill-fated Commander Crabb, stayed awake three days and nights to achieve mastery over a fierce, untamed hawk (The Goshawk...
...University of Washington, one of the nation's biggest (15,500 students), was getting ready this week to take a look at a distinguished visitor who will also be its new president: Medievalist Charles Odegaard, 47, now dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. In choosing him after an 18-month search, the regents expect to change not only presidents but the face of their university...
Both prayer books were bought from Baron Maurice de Rothschild's collection in 1954 by James J. Rorimer, then curator of The Cloisters, a Met outpost. For Medievalist Rorimer the two books represented "an extraordinary opportunity for supplementing The Cloister's collections." Rorimer, now the Met's director, used income from a $10 million gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase the books, waited until this year's Christmas season to announce the acquisition...
...newer documents were records of loans made by the Lombard bankers of Italy to Crusaders passing through-and all were unearthed by the same genealogist, one Henri Courtois. But if these facts caused any doubts to arise, they were promptly quelled by the further fact that the greatest medievalist in France, Director Leon Lacabane of the Ecole des Chartes, authenticated each...
...years ago a young medievalist named Robert-Henri Bautier found occasion to examine some of Genealogist Courtois' documents more closely. With government help, he turned microscopes and ultraviolet rays on the moldy old parchments, only to discover that the ink and the writing on them was of a date far later than the parchments themselves. Wanting to be sure, Bautier enlisted the aid of police, archivists and other scholars, and set out in search of further knowledge of Genealogist Courtois. Last week, in the silent, august chamber of L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced...