Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982)
Autor/a de The Beginnings of English Society
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Dorothy Whitelock
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, 2 exemplars
Councils and Synods With Other Documents Relating to the English Church (Volume 1 in 2 Parts) (1981) 2 exemplars
After Bede 1 exemplars
From Bede to Alfred: Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Literature and History (Collected studies series) (1980) 1 exemplars
History, Law and Literature in 10th-11th Century England (Collected studies series) (1981) 1 exemplars
The pre-Viking age church in East Anglia 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Beowulf: A Prose Translation [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1975) — Col·laborador — 343 exemplars
Essays in Medieval History. Selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the Occasion of Its… (1968) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Whitelock, Dorothy
- Data de naixement
- 1901-11-11
- Data de defunció
- 1982-08-14
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Educació
- Newnham College, University of Cambridge (BA|1924|Litt.D|1950)
- Professions
- lecturer (in Old English)
historian
scholar
translator
professor - Relacions
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (colleague)
Hughes, Kathleen (colleague) - Organitzacions
- St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (Lecturer in Old English)
Newnham College, University of Cambridge (Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon)
Viking Society
English Place-Name Society
Society of English Archaeology - Premis i honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1956)
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (1951)
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (1930)
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London (1945)
Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1964) - Biografia breu
- Dorothy Whitelock was born in Leeds, England, and proved to be an excellent student. At age 20, she went up to Cambridge University, where she studied history and philology. Her specialty became studies of Anglo-Saxon poetry and history. In 1930, she published a translation and commentary on 39 Anglo-Saxon wills and became a lecturer at Oxford University. Like many female scholars of her era, Dorothy Whitelock was shut out of several important academic posts considered more suitable for men. However, she persevered in her scholarship and writing and produced a series of notable works, including her most famous book, English Historical Documents (1955). The majority of her works are considered the gold standard in the field. Her talents and achievements were finally recognised in 1956, when she was elected a fellow of the British Academy. In 1957, she returned to Cambridge University as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. Under her direction, the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies was taken out of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology and added to the Faculty of English, where it became the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic -- as it remains today.
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- Obres
- 15
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 611
- Popularitat
- #41,144
- Valoració
- 3.8
- ISBN
- 26