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H. M. Chadwick: A Centennial Commemoration

By Michael Lapidge

Book information

Publisher
University of Cambridge, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
Year
2013
ISBN
0957186258, 9780957186255
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
483 kB (494617 bytes)
Series
H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 23
Pages
28\28
Topic
Literature
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-12-26 00:01:04

Description

The first holder of the Elrington-Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon in this University, Walter William Skeat, died on 6 October 1912, still in post and relatively active, at the age of 76. The Board of Electors to the Chair met on 21 November 1912, and appointed to the Professorship Hector Munro Chadwick, then Lecturer in Scandinavian in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and Fellow of Clare College. This appointment had immense consequences for the ways in which Anglo-Saxon and related disciplines have been studied here in Cambridge (and to some extent in the wider scholarly world) for the past century. in this twenty-third H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture, which marks the centennial of that momentous appointment, I shall try to say something about H. M. Chadwick’s own intellectual achievement, but shall be equally concerned with exploring the institutional ways in which he succeeded in implementing his vision of the subject, not least through his own teaching and the students he inspired; and I shall conclude by asking what the present-day study of Anglo-Saxon in this University owes to Chadwick’s vision.

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