Alistair Campbell (academic)

Alistair Campbell (12 December 1907 – 5 February 1974) was a British academic who was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from October 1963 until his death. He was the editor of editions of the Old English poem Battle of Brunanburh[1] and Æthelweard's Chronicon. He was the author of Old English Grammar (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959 ISBN 0-19-811901-1).

Campbell first drew the distinction between the classical and hermeneutic styles of late Roman and early medieval Latin.[2]

References

  1. Treharne, Elaine M. (2004). Old and Middle English c.890-c.1400: an anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 28.
  2. Campbell, 1953; Lapidge, p. 105

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