medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Erik Drigsdahl <[log in to unmask]>
>In the field of Art History for example were all major scholarly publications
written in German until the mid 1930's.
mmmm...
a good generalization, but not *quite* true.
though Art History as a discipline is generally thought to have come into its
own through the writings of, say, Winklemann, the role of Bernard de
Montfaucon's
Les Monumens de la monarchie françoise (1729) as a founding work of medieval
art historical scholarship shouldn't be overlooked.
as to periodicals, just to think of a few French examples (and only those
devoted, entirely or at least in part, to the M.A.):
the Société française d'archéologie began publication of its "Recueil de
documents et de mémoires relatifs aux différentes branches de
l'archéologie" (a.k.a. the "Bulletin Monumental") in 1836/7 and its "Congrès
archéologique de France. Séances générales tenues ... par la Société
française pour la conservation des monuments historiques," in 1834.
the Gazette des beaux arts" began in 1859; the "Revue de l'art chrétien" in
1857;
the "Monuments et mémoires publiés par l'Académie des inscriptions et
belles-lettres / Fondation Eugène Piot," informally known as the "Monuments
Piot" began publication around 1900, i believe.
>No publication from American Universities before that time is known to me.
literally true, perhaps, though the role of E.K. Rand at Harvard in the
founding of the Medieval Academy of America and the publication of "Speculum"
(begun in 1926) might be mentioned.
as might the seminal work of Arthur Kingsley Porter, cut short by his
accidental death in the early '30s.
> The boost to US Universities came with the immigration of the most imminent
Jewish and Humanist scholars forced in exile from Germany since 1933.
neither Jewish nor German, but, in terms of Art History at least, i would
include Henri Focillon in that group, having come over in '38 (or so) to teach
at Yale and gotten "stuck" here by the war's beginning.
though he died in '43, his impact on a whole generation of American students
was quite profound, cf. esp. George Kubler, Sumner McKnight Crosby and, i
believe, Kenneth Connant.
c
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