Francis James Carmody

Francis James Carmody (born 1907 in San Francisco ; † December 5, 1982 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Carmody studied French and music at Berkeley . He graduated in 1929, went to Europe for a year and then to Harvard University for two years with Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford and Charles Hall Grandgent . There he received his doctorate in 1932 with the work The Opéra-Comique en vaudevilles at Paris 1712-1764 and went back to the University of California at Berkeley for a career as a university lecturer , where Richard Thayer Holbrook, who died in 1934, was represented.

In Berkeley, Carmody was an instructor (1932), assistant professor (1937), most recently full professor (1950). In 1972 he retired. He was a member of the Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises (AIEF).

Carmody was a Knight of the Legion of Honor (1952).

Works

• Franco-italian sources of the Roncesvalles, New York 1934
• (with Richard Thayer Holbrook ) X-ray studies of speech articulations, Berkeley 1937
• (Ed.) Physiologus latinus. Editions préliminaires, versio B, Paris 1939
• (Ed.) Physiologus latinus versio Y, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1941
• An X-ray study of pharyngeal articulation, Berkeley 1941
• (Ed.) Theorica planetarum Gerardi, Berkeley 1942
• Quotations in the latin physiologus from latin bibles earlier than the vulgate, Berkeley 1944
• The interrogative system in modern Scottish Gaelic, Berkeley 1945
• (Ed.) Leopold of Austria [Leopoldo de Austria, illegitimate son of Emperor Maximilian I, Bishop of Córdoba 1541-1557], "Li Compilcacions de le science des estoilles", books I-III, Berkeley 1947
• Manx Gaelic sentence structure in the 1819 Bible and the 1625 Prayer book, Berkeley 1947
• (Eds.) Brunetto Latini , Li livres dou tresor, Berkeley (Calif.) 1948, Geneva 1975, 1998
• (Ed.) Al-Bitrûjî, De motibus celorum. Critical edition of the Latin translation of Michael Scot, Berkeley 1952
• (with Jules Romains, Marcel Brion and Richard Exner) Yvan Goll . Quatre études, ed. by Claire Goll, Paris 1956
• Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in Latin translation. A critical bibliography, Berkeley 1956
• (Ed.) The Astronomical works of Thabit B. Qurra, Berkeley 1960, Frankfurt am Main 2006
• (Eds.) Yvan Goll , Jean sans terre, Berkeley 1962
• The Evolution of Apollinaire's poetics 1901-1914, Berkeley 1963, Ann Arbor 1998
• Iberic morphology, Berkeley 1969
• Perceval le Gallois, roman du douzième siècle, Berkeley 1970
• L'Espagne de Ptolémée. Toponymy pré-romaine. Etude linguistique, Berkeley 1973
• Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne. Sources et parallèles, Berkeley 1976
• La Gaule des itinéraires romains, Berkeley 1977
• L'Italie des geographes classiques, Berkeley 1979
• La langue ibéro-basque, Berkeley 1980
• Cinq essais sur l'occulte. L'alchimie, le Zohar, le Rig-Veda, le Zend-Avesta, Cu Chulainn, Berkeley 1981
• Innovations in Averroes de Caelo, Berkeley 1982
• (Ed.) Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis ex recognitione Francis James Carmody, ed. by Rüdiger Arnzen , Löwen 2003

Web links

• Literature by and about Francis James Carmody in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• obituary