Essays on Archaeological Subjects, Volume 2Cambridge University Press, 2018 M05 17 - 334 pages Thomas Wright (1810-77), antiquarian, archaeologist and historian, wrote many works on all his areas of interest, including several reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. He was the first excavator of the Roman city of Wroxeter, wrote on the history of Ludlow and of Cambridge, and was interested in ethnology, folklore, the Celtic languages and Old English, and etymology. This two-volume collection of his essays was published in 1861: he selected them 'to embrace in some manner the whole field of our own primeval history and that of the Middle Ages'. The subjects range from the excavation of tumuli in Yorkshire to the history of drama in the Middle Ages. Wright draws on sources ranging from medieval charters to modern linguistic studies, as well as the remains and artefacts uncovered by his own and others' excavations. Volume 2 contains articles on the medieval period, from language to architecture and satire. |
Contents
On the History of the English Language | 28 |
On the Abacus or Mediaeval System of Arith | 61 |
On the Antiquity of Dates expressed in Arabic | 74 |
Remarks on an Ivory Casket of the beginning | 88 |
On the Carvings of the Stalls in Cathedral | 111 |
Illustrations of some questions relating to Archi | 129 |
Chapter Page | 141 |
On the Origin of Rhymes in Mediaeval Poetry | 151 |
On the History of the Drama in the Middle Ages | 169 |
On the Literature of the Trobadours | 194 |
On the History of Comic Literature during | 230 |
On the Satirical Literature of the Reformation | 272 |
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