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Philip Grierson

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 18 okt 2006 14:26:06

Readers of Stewart Baldwin's excellent new and revised Flanders material
presented in the Henry Project will be aware of the great contribution to
these studies over many years by Philip Grierson.

I don't think it has been mentioned in the forum that he died in January
this year, a few months before he would have reached his 96th birthday.

Peter Stewart

John P. Ravilious

Re: Philip Grierson

Legg inn av John P. Ravilious » 18 okt 2006 15:14:22

Dear Peter,

Thanks for that notice. Prof. Grierson was truly a scholar and a
gentleman.

List members may be interested in more details concerning Philip
Grierson in the obituary by Christopher Brooke, published in January
2006 in The Independent. This can be accessed at

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n16026151

He left a combined legacy of humanity and scholarship, for which
we should all be grateful.

Cheers,

John




Peter Stewart wrote:
Readers of Stewart Baldwin's excellent new and revised Flanders material
presented in the Henry Project will be aware of the great contribution to
these studies over many years by Philip Grierson.

I don't think it has been mentioned in the forum that he died in January
this year, a few months before he would have reached his 96th birthday.

Peter Stewart

Peter Stewart

Re: Philip Grierson

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 18 okt 2006 23:08:59

Thanks, John - I note that Grierson was just two months past his 95th
birthday, not as close as I thought to a 96th.

I was particularly amused by Christopher Brooke's remark "When he presided
in hall, his colleagues were expected to eat with dispatch so as not to cut
short an evening of research" - the food at high tables in Cambridge is not
usually good enough to linger over, and I wonder how quickly the dons were
expected to gobble it down. Perhaps the wine to make it palatable would have
clouded any research undertaken later in the evening by lesser men than
Grierson.

Peter Stewart


"John P. Ravilious" <therav3@aol.com> wrote in message
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Dear Peter,

Thanks for that notice. Prof. Grierson was truly a scholar and a
gentleman.

List members may be interested in more details concerning Philip
Grierson in the obituary by Christopher Brooke, published in January
2006 in The Independent. This can be accessed at

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n16026151

He left a combined legacy of humanity and scholarship, for which
we should all be grateful.

Cheers,

John




Peter Stewart wrote:
Readers of Stewart Baldwin's excellent new and revised Flanders material
presented in the Henry Project will be aware of the great contribution to
these studies over many years by Philip Grierson.

I don't think it has been mentioned in the forum that he died in January
this year, a few months before he would have reached his 96th birthday.

Peter Stewart

John P. Ravilious

Re: Philip Grierson

Legg inn av John P. Ravilious » 19 okt 2006 16:20:07

Dear Peter,

Pity to hear of the cuisine at Cambridge - I assume this was not
strictly peculiar to Gonville and Caius.

I wonder to what degree Christopher Brooke may have expounded on
this aspect of daily life in his History of Cambridge? If only
detailed in his personal papers, I believe that deposit will not be
accessible for many years to come *.

Cheers,

John


* I have known scholars to have spent considerable research on Roman
bread, garum & c. Perhaps a new line of research is possible on the
subject of Cambridge Cuisine?



Peter Stewart wrote:
Thanks, John - I note that Grierson was just two months past his 95th
birthday, not as close as I thought to a 96th.

I was particularly amused by Christopher Brooke's remark "When he presided
in hall, his colleagues were expected to eat with dispatch so as not to cut
short an evening of research" - the food at high tables in Cambridge is not
usually good enough to linger over, and I wonder how quickly the dons were
expected to gobble it down. Perhaps the wine to make it palatable would have
clouded any research undertaken later in the evening by lesser men than
Grierson.

Peter Stewart


"John P. Ravilious" <therav3@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1161180862.331202.36310@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Dear Peter,

Thanks for that notice. Prof. Grierson was truly a scholar and a
gentleman.

List members may be interested in more details concerning Philip
Grierson in the obituary by Christopher Brooke, published in January
2006 in The Independent. This can be accessed at

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n16026151

He left a combined legacy of humanity and scholarship, for which
we should all be grateful.

Cheers,

John




Peter Stewart wrote:
Readers of Stewart Baldwin's excellent new and revised Flanders material
presented in the Henry Project will be aware of the great contribution to
these studies over many years by Philip Grierson.

I don't think it has been mentioned in the forum that he died in January
this year, a few months before he would have reached his 96th birthday.

Peter Stewart

Nathaniel Taylor

Re: Philip Grierson

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 19 okt 2006 17:16:00

In article <1161271207.723820.146120@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"John P. Ravilious" <therav3@aol.com> wrote:

Pity to hear of the cuisine at Cambridge - I assume this was not
strictly peculiar to Gonville and Caius.

I wonder to what degree Christopher Brooke may have expounded on
this aspect of daily life in his History of Cambridge? If only
detailed in his personal papers, I believe that deposit will not be
accessible for many years to come *.

* I have known scholars to have spent considerable research on Roman
bread, garum & c. Perhaps a new line of research is possible on the
subject of Cambridge Cuisine?

I expect there are many posters here who have partaken; perhaps they
refrain from comment out of politeness.

Nat Taylor

Peter Stewart

Re: Philip Grierson

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 19 okt 2006 23:38:16

"Nathaniel Taylor" <nathanieltaylor@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:nathanieltaylor-6DAAF3.12160019102006@news.west.earthlink.net...
In article <1161271207.723820.146120@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"John P. Ravilious" <therav3@aol.com> wrote:

Pity to hear of the cuisine at Cambridge - I assume this was not
strictly peculiar to Gonville and Caius.

I wonder to what degree Christopher Brooke may have expounded on
this aspect of daily life in his History of Cambridge? If only
detailed in his personal papers, I believe that deposit will not be
accessible for many years to come *.

* I have known scholars to have spent considerable research on Roman
bread, garum & c. Perhaps a new line of research is possible on the
subject of Cambridge Cuisine?

I expect there are many posters here who have partaken; perhaps they
refrain from comment out of politeness.

My memory of the ghastly food in the early 1970s could be out-of-date now -
I have heard that standards improved after the arrival of women in many
colleges (I think Caius held out against co-education for longer than most,
but could well be wrong on this).

Oxford was almost as bad, with notable exceptions. Someone made a handsome
bequest to Merton that was only to be spent in the kitchen and wine cellar,
leading to envy and then emulation in other quarters.

Peter Stewart

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