Peter Dronke
Ernst Peter Michael Dronke
Medieval Latin literature. He was one of the 20th century's leading scholars of medieval Latin lyric
, and his book The Medieval Lyric (1968) is considered the standard introduction to the subject.
Life and career
Dronke was born in 1934 in
chair in Medieval Latin literature in 1989. He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.[6] He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[7] In 2001, he retired.[8]
Dronke married fellow medievalist Ursula Brown in 1961.[9]
He died on 19 April 2020.[10][11]
Selected works
- Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric, 2 vols., (1965-6; 2d ed. 1968)
- The Medieval Lyric (1968; 2d ed. 1978; 3d ed. 1996)
- Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages: New Departures in Poetry 1000–1500 (1970; 2d ed. 1986)
- Fabula: Explorations into the Uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism (1974)
- Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete(1984)
- Danteand Medieval Latin Traditions (1986)
- A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy, editor (1988)
- Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages (1991)
- Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe (1992)
- Nine Medieval Latin Plays, translator (1994)
- Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante: The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form (1994)
- Sources of Inspiration: Studies in Literary Transformations, 400–1500 (1997)
- Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World: The First Nine Centuries A.D. (2003)
- The Spell of Calcidius: Platonic Concepts and Images in the Medieval West (2008)
Footnotes
- ISBN 9780946653508.
- ^ "Dronke, Minnie Maria".
- ^ ISBN 90-04-11964-7, pdf, p. 1.
- ^ "Ernst Peter Michael Dronke in the New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981". Ancestry.com Operations. 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 499.
- ^ Marenbon, pp. 1-2.
- ^ "E.P. Dronke". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ Marenbon, p. ix.
- ^ Marenbon, p. 2.
- ^ Marina Warner (14 May 2020). "Peter Dronke obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "È morto il grande medievista Peter Dronke". Festival del Medioevo (in Italian). 23 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
