Charles Henry Gifford 1913–2003

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ricks
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Boris Pasternak ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
General Editor ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Charles Henry Gifford (1913–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a scholar-critic whose death at the age of ninety brought home what true piety is, in contemplation of his supple stamina and of his own discriminating piety towards the literary geniuses whose presences he owned: Leo Tolstoy and George Seferis, Boris Pasternak and Samuel Johnson, Dante and T. S. Eliot. He was a teacher for thirty years at the University of Bristol, a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, as essayist for Grand Street, and general editor (for Cambridge University Press) of the Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature. Educated at Harrow and then at Christ Church, Oxford, Gifford gained his BA in 1936, securing those foundations in Classics that were once held to be indispensable to all humane literary studies. Though he changed his mind as to whether he was cut out to be a poet, he never dispensed with what underpinned his love of poetry, the trained analytical and synthesising powers that his study of classical literature had helped to establish within him.

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Philosophy ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-329
Keyword(s):  
Associate Professor ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Philip Kitcher ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
The University

Notes on ContributorsGilbert Ryle (1900–76)Taught at Christ Church, Oxford from 1924–45 and was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics at Oxford University from 1945–68. His Concept of Mind (1949) is one of the classics of twentieth century philosophy.Jennifer NagelTeaches philosophy at the University of New Mexico and the University of Toronto.Philip KitcherProfessor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He has written books and articles on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science.Achille VarziAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent works are An Essay in Universal Semantics and Parts and Places (with Roberto Casati).Neil CooperEmeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Dundee. He is author of The Diversity of Moral Thinking. His contributions to Philosophy include ‘Two Concepts of Morality’ (January 1996) and ‘The Art of Philosophy’ (April 1991).Stephen R. L. ClarkProfessor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool. His most recent book is Biology and Christian Ethics (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).D. GoldstickProfessor of Philosophy, University of Toronto. His earlier contributions to Philosophy include ‘The Welfare of the Dead’ (January 1988).Colin RadfordFormerly Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent. Now Emeritus (since 1996).Phil DoweLecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He works on causation, time and chance. He has published a book on causation, Physical Causation (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and is currently working on a book on time travel called ‘Backwards Causation’.

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Worship in Medieval England. Past Imperfect Series. Croydon: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, 92 pages.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
Jane Beal
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Liturgical Studies ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
The University

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, a Lecturer in Music at University and Worcester College, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, wrote this book for ARC Humanities Press’s Past Imperfect series (a series comparable to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions). Two of his recent, significant contributions to the field of medieval liturgical studies include The Secular Office in Late-Medieval England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) and, as editor and translator, Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017). In keeping with the work of editors Thomas Heffernan and E. Ann Matter in The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, 2nd ed. (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005) and Richard W. Pfaff in The Liturgy of Medieval England: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2009), this most recent book provides a fascinating overview of the liturgy of the medieval church, specifically in England. Salisbury’s expertise is evident on every page.

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