Daniel Waley
Daniel Waley | |
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Born | 20 March 1921 Italian history, military history, biography |
Institutions | London School of Economics (1950–1972), British Library (1972–1986) |
Main interests | Medieval Italian communes |
Notable works | The Italian City-Republics |
Daniel Philip Waley FBA (20 March 1921 in London[1] – 26 May 2017) was a British historian, manuscript specialist, and professor. He was best known for his enduring textbooks on medieval Italy and Europe.
Biography
Waley began his education in
In 1972 Waley left the LSE, where for some of the time he had been the lone medievalist, and was appointed Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, where his son already worked in the oriental department; he transferred in 1973 to the newly formed British Library.[9] He retired in 1991 together with his wife and the couple moved to Lewes.[11] In 1990 he was awarded the British Academy's Serena Medal, and in 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In addition to the books listed below, he published numerous articles, reviews, catalogue introductions and biographical pieces. In his primary work on the urban government of medieval Italy, he dedicated much attention to the affairs of the smaller communes, among them San Gimignano.
Waley was a nephew of the orientalist and translator Arthur Waley, who held a similar position at the British Museum in the early 20th century.[12][9] He married Pamela Griffiths, a wartime employee of Bletchley and later Lecturer in Hispanic and Italian Languages at Westfield College, in 1945; they had two children.[13][14]
Views and method
Throughout his career Waley gave priority to archival research and showed an inclination for dismantling myths through sober analysis rooted in the source material. Born into a
Books
- Mediaeval Orvieto: The Political History of an Italian City-State, 1157–1334 (1952)
- The Papal State in the Thirteenth Century (1961)
- Later Medieval Europe: from Saint Louis to Luther (1964; 2nd edn. 1985; 3rd edn. with Peter Denley, 2001)
- The Italian City-Republics (1969, 2nd edn. 1978; 3rd edn. 1988; 4th edn. with Trevor Dean, 2010)
- British Public Opinion and the Abyssinian War, 1935–6 (1975)
- George Eliot's Blotter: A Commonplace-Book (1980)
- Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century (1991)
- A Liberal Life: Sydney, Earl Buxton 1853–1934, Statesman, Governor-General of South Africa (1999)
Notes
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 307.
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 307–9.
- ^ "Obituaries: Daniel Philip Waley", King's College, Cambridge, Annual Report 2018 (PDF), p. 120–1
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 309.
- ^ "Obituaries: Daniel Philip Waley", King's College, Cambridge, Annual Report 2018 (PDF), p. 121
- ^ Sartain 1948, p. 257–8.
- ^ Mediaeval Orvieto: the political history of an Italian city state, 1157-1334 / Daniel Philip Waley, Cambridge University Libraries, retrieved 12 March 2023
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 309–10, 315.
- ^ a b c Dean 2019, p. 311.
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 311, 318.
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 314.
- ^ "Obituaries: Daniel Philip Waley", King's College, Cambridge, Annual Report 2018 (PDF), p. 120
- ^ Dean 2019, p. 308.
- ^ "Obituaries: Daniel Philip Waley", King's College, Cambridge, Annual Report 2018 (PDF), p. 121, 124
- ^ Dean 2019.
References
- Biography of Daniel Waley from Later Medieval Europe: 1250–1520 (1964) by Daniel Waley
- Dean, Trevor (2019), "Daniel Philip Waley (20 March 1921 – 26 May 2017)" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 18: 305–324
- Sartain, W.J. (1948), "List of Subjects of Theses by Cambridge University Students working for the Ph.D. or M.Litt. Degree in History, 1947–48", Cambridge Historical Journal, 9 (2): 257–8,