Peter Edward Russell

Peter Edward Russell (born October 24, 1913 in Christchurch , † June 22, 2006 in Oxford ) was a British historian, Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist of New Zealand origin.

life and work

Career

Peter Edward Lionel Wheeler took his mother's name at the age of 16 and called himself Russell. He studied at Oxford University with William J. Entwistle and was there from 1937 College Lecturer. During the war he was an intelligence officer. From 1946 to 1953 he was Lecturer in Spanish Studies at Oxford University, from 1953 until his retirement in 1981 (as successor to his teacher) King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies .

Russell as a revolutionary medievalist

With his essay "Some Problems of Diplomatic in the" Cantar de Mio Cid "and Their Implications" (in: Modern Language Review 47, 1952, pp. 340-349), Russell initiated a rethink about the time and place of the origin of the Cantar de Mio Cid , which replaced the previously valid view of Ramón Menéndez Pidal . Fifty years later, a celebratory colloquium was dedicated to this pioneering act in the presence of the author.

Russell as a literary figure

The Spanish author Javier Marías , who had taught in Oxford from 1983 to 1985, immortalized Russell under the name Sir Peter Wheeler in his novels Todas las almas , 1989 (German: Alle Seelen oder die Irren von Oxford , 1991) and Negra espalda del tiempo , 1998 (German: Black Back of Time , 2000), also in the trilogy Tu rostro mañana , 2002–2007 (German: Your face tomorrow , 2004–2009 with the volumes: Fieber und Lanze; Tanz und Traum; Poison und Schatten and Farewell ), most recently in the novel Berta Isla , 2017.

Honors

Russell was an honorary doctorate from Oxford University (he never completed his regular dissertation). He became a member of the British Academy in 1977 and knighted in 1995. He was Commander in the Order de Isabel la Católica and in the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique . Four festschrifts were dedicated to him.

Works

• As Fontes de Fernão Lopes , Coimbra 1941
• Ezra Pound. A collection of essays to be presented to Ezra Pound on his sixty-fifth birthday , London 1950 (Ed.)
• The English intervention in Spain and Portugal in the time of Edward III and Richard II , Oxford 1955 (Portuguese: A Intervenção inglesa na Península ibérica durante a guerra dos cem anos, Lisbon 2000)
• Spain. A companion to Spanish studies , London 1973 (Ed.)
• Temas de "La Celestina" y otros estudios del "Cid" al "Quijote" , Barcelona 1978
• O Infante D. Henrique e as Ilhas Canárias. Uma dimensão mal compreendida da biografia henriquina , Lisbon 1979
• Traducciones y traductores en la Península ibérica (1400-1550) , Bellaterra 1985
• Cervantes , Oxford 1985
• Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina. Comedia o tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea , Madrid 1991, 1993, 2001, 2007, Barcelona 2013 (ed.)
• Portugal, Spain and the African Atlantic, 1343-1490. Chivalry and crusade from John of Gaunt to Henry the Navigator , Aldershot 1995
• Prince Henry "the Navigator". A life , New Haven (Conn.) 2000 (Portuguese: Henrique O Navegador , Lisbon 2004)

literature

• Mediaeval and Renaissance studies on Spain and Portugal in honor of PE Russell , ed. by FW Hodcroft, Robert Pring-Mill et al., Oxford 1981
• Letters and society in fifteenth-century Spain. Studies presented to PE Russell on his eightieth birthday , ed. by Alan Deyermond and Jeremy Lawrance, Llangrannog 1993
• Studies for Peter E. Russell on his 80th birthday , ed. by Julian Weiss, East Lansing 1993
• Mio Cid studies. "Some problems of diplomatic" fifty years on , ed. by Alan Deyermond, David G. Pattison and Eric Southworth, London 2002 (Ceremonial Colloquium)
• The Independent July 5, 2006
• The Telegraph July 10, 2006
• Bruce Taylor: Peter Edward Lionel Russell, 1913-2006 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 172 , 2011, p. 275-289 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Edward Russell in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)