Author Listings (Medieval)
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Susan's parents taught her at home for most of elementary and middle school, and all of high school; she entered college at seventeen as a Presidential Scholar and National Merit finalist, and finished her B.A. in five semesters with a major in English, a minor in Greek and a summer spent studying twentieth century ....[more] |
| Josef Meri is an American-born scholar of Medieval Islamic history, the history of religions and interfaith relations. Born in Chicago, Dr. Meri has travelled extensively and has lived in Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, London, and Oxford. He has spent the last five years in Amman, Jordan affiliated to the Royal Aal al-Bay....[more] |
| I grew up in Ithaca, New York, where I spent most of my time reading children's books. I loved fantasy, and I especially loved fairy tales. In high school I started working in the children's room of the public library, and I kept reading fairy tales. After college, I came to New York City and got a job in children's bo....[more] |
| Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918) was an American, novelist, journalist and historian Adams is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams.
Adams was born on February 16, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts into the politically prominent Adams family. Adams was the fourth of seven children. His father....[more] |
| Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet best known for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso (1516). Orlando Furioso is translated as “The Frenzy of Orlando” or “Mad Orlando.” It is a romantic epic poem that continues the earlier, incomplete romantic poem Orlando Innamorato (English translatio....[more] |
| Bede (673 – 735) also known as Venerable Bede or Saint Bede was a monk in England who also spent his time as an author and scholar. “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” is Bede’s most popular work. Most of what is known about Bede comes from the last chapter of this book. The rest details the history of t....[more] |
| Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, the only child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. Browning’s father owned a library of about 6,000 books so Robert always had considerable literary resources. By age twelve Browning had written a book of p....[more] |
| Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the sixth of the eleven children born to Hannah Apthorp and Charles Bulfinch. He attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating in 1814. He was an avid reader and amassed a large library over ....[more] |
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