Leslie J. Workman

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Leslie J. Workman (born March 5, 1927 in Hanwell , London , England, † April 1, 2001 in Grand Rapids , Michigan, USA) was a private scholar and founder of academic mediaevalism .

Life

Workman was educated at London's Russell School, then studied at Kings College, University of London (bachelor's degree in history), and served in the British Army in Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan from 1945 to 1948. In 1954, he immigrated to the United States from, studied history at Columbia University and Ohio State University . He then taught at Queens College, City University of New York , Muhlenberg College ( Allentown, Pennsylvania ), and the Western College for Women ( Oxford, Ohio ). In 1983 he married Kathleen Verduin , Professor of American Studies at Hope College, Holland, Michigan .

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Workman's original contribution to cultural studies is the establishment of a network of scholars who endeavor to research the reception of the Middle Ages in post-medieval times. Although unemployed since the early 1980s, he was increasingly able to convince colleagues of the value of the paradigm “old-fashionedism”. As early as 1971 he organized the first conference sections on this topic for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University ( Kalamazoo, Michigan ), in 1979 he founded the still leading journal in the field, Studies in Medievalism , of which he was editor until 1999. and founded the annual International General Conference on Medievalism in 1986. In 1998, his extraordinary services were recognized with a commemorative publication, Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Leslie J. Workman .

Publications

  • Medievalism . In: Norris J. Lacy (Ed.): The Arthurian Encyclopedia . Garland, New York 1985, pp. 387-91.
  • Medievalism and Romanticism . In: Poetica . 1994, 39-40: 1-34.
  • (Ed.) Studies in Medievalism , 1979–1999.

literature

  • William Calin: Leslie Workman: A Speech of Thanks. In: Richard Utz, Tom Shippey (eds.): Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honor of Leslie Workman . Brepols, Turnhout 1998, p. 451 f.
  • Richard Utz: Medievalism in the Making: A Bibliography of Leslie J. Workman. In: The Year's Work in Medievalism 15 (2001), pp. 127-31.
  • Kathleen Verduin: Remembering Leslie J. Workman (1927-2001). In: Anne Lair, Richard Utz (Eds.): Falling into Medievalism [1] , special issue: UNIversitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity , 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Workman, Leslie J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British private scholar and founder of academic mediaevalism
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanwell , London, England
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2001
Place of death Grand Rapids , Michigan, USA