Nora Kershaw Chadwick

Nora Kershaw Chadwick (born January 28, 1891 in Lancashire , † April 24, 1972 in Cambridge ) was a British scholar who had devoted himself to traditional literature ( folk literature ).

Life

Chadwick studied at Cambridge University and taught after graduating from the University of St. Andrews during World War I. In 1919 she continued her studies ( Old English and Old Norse languages) in Cambridge with Professor Hector Munro Chadwick, whom she married in 1922. Her home in Cambridge was a literary meeting place, even after her husband's death in 1947.

She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Wales, the National University of Ireland and the University of St Andrews. In 1956 she became a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy and in 1961 CBE .

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She was working with her husband, Hector Munro Chadwick , on a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry . The Growth of Literature was published by Cambridge University Press between 1932 and 1940. A revised version of part of the third volume of The Growth of Literature on the epic poetry of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia , revised together with Viktor Schirmunski , appeared in 1969 as Oral Epics of Central Asia .

Another narrow but important work - Poetry and Prophecy from 1942 - examines the connections between poetry and prophecy .

Chadwick also wrote on the Celtic history of Britain and Brittany (Britannia Major, Britannia Minor) and worked with Myles Dillon and Kenneth H. Jackson , among others . Her Early Scotland appeared in 1949, and in 1965 she published The colonization of Brittany from Celtic Britain .

Fonts (selection)

A complete list can be found in: A list of the published writings of Hector Munro Chadwick and of his wife Nora Kershaw Chadwick , Cambridge 1971.

• The Growth of Literature :
  • Volume 1: The Ancient Literatures of Europe. 1932.
  • Volume 2: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature. 1936.
  • Volume 3: The Oral Literature of the Tatars, ... Polynesia, ... the Sea Dyaks of North Borneo, ... some African peoples: a general survey. 1940.
• Oral epics of Central Asia. Cambridge Univ. Press, London 1969.
• Anglo-Saxon and Norse poems. Cambridge, Univ. Press, London 1922.
• Poetry and Prophecy . Cambridge 1942.
• Early Scotland. 1949.
• Celtic Britain. ( Ancient Peoples and Places ) Thames & Hudson, London 1963.
• The colonization of Brittany from Celtic Britain. 1965.
• The druids. Univ. of Wales Press, Cardiff 1966.
• with Myles Dillon The Celts. From the prehistory to the Norman invasion. Kindler's cultural history , 1966
  • English edition: The Celtic realms . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1967.
• Poetry and Letters in Early Christian Gaul. Bowes & Bowes, London 1955.
• Les Royaumes Celtiques. 1967, avec Myles Dillon. Édité par Arthème Fayard en 1974, puis Marabout en 1979. Réédité en 1999 par Armeline, Crozon 2001, ISBN 2-910878-13-9 , édition mise à jour et augmentée d'un chapitre additionnel de Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h and Françoise Le Roux.
• The age of the Saints in the early Celtic Church  : the Riddell Memorial Lectures Thirty-second Series delivered at King's College in the University of Durham on 22, 23, and 24 march 1960, Oxford Univ. Press, London et al. 1961.
• The British heroic age: the Welsh and the men of the North. University of Wales Pr. [For] the Bord of Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff 1976.

literature

• Kenneth Jackson: Nora Kershaw Chadwick 1891–1972. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. 58, 1973, pp. 537-549.
• HR Ellis Davidson: Nora Kershaw Chadwick. In: Folklore 83. No. 3 (Autumn 1972), pp. 254-255.
• Enid Welsford: In Memoriam Nora K. Chadwick 1891–1972. Cambridge 1973.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nora Kershaw Chadwick in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 13, 2020 .