| 词条 | Richard Barber |
| 释义 |
|image = |imagesize = 150px | name = Richard William Barber | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1941}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Historian | nationality = British | period = | genre = | subject = Middle Ages Chivalry Medieval literature Mythology | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }}Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born 1941) is a British historian[1] who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book The Knight and Chivalry, about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a well-known British literary prize, in 1971. A similarly-themed 2004 book, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, was widely praised in the UK press,[2][3][4][5] and received major reviews in The New York Times[6] and The New Republic.[7] Barber has long specialised in Arthurian legend, beginning with the general survey, Arthur of Albion (1961). His other major interest is historical biography: he has published Henry Plantagenet (1964) and a biography of Edward, the Black Prince, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine (1978). Recent biographical books are Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crécy and the Order of the Garter (2013), which includes a reappraisal of the origins of the Order, and Henry II in the Penguin Monarchs series (2015). His latest book is The Prince in Splendour (2017), a study of the role of festivals and feasts in the courts of medieval Europe looking at the events which such occasions celebrated and the organisation which lay behind them. LifeBarber was educated at Shrewsbury School. In 1969 he founded The Boydell Press, which later became Boydell & Brewer Ltd, a publisher in medieval studies, and acted as group managing director until 2009. In 1989, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, in association with the University of Rochester, started the University of Rochester Press in upstate New York. In 2016, the directors of Boydell & Brewer Ltd transferred the company into a trust for the benefit of the employees. He was visiting Professor in the history department at the University of York from 2013 to 2016, and was awarded an honorary doctorate there in 2015. Select bibliography
Collaborations
References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/28/history.highereducation|title=Review: The Holy Grail by Richard Barber|last=Sumption|first=Jonathan|date=February 28, 2004|work=The Guardian|accessdate=4 August 2012}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/28/history.highereducation|title=Review: The Holy Grail by Richard Barber|last=Sumption|first=Jonathan|date=February 28, 2004|work=The Guardian|accessdate=4 August 2012| quote = Richard Barber has written a valuable and agreeably sensible account of the literary origins of the grail legend, as well as its subsequent fortunes. He is a serious scholar and a brave man, who is not afraid of making enemies, and has trodden on plenty of scholarly corns as well as a fair number of unscholarly ones. This is not a contentious or argumentative book. It bangs no drums and blows no trumpets, but begins and ends with the evidence.}} 3. ^{{cite news | last = Armstrong | first = Karen | title = Elusive reality: The Holy Grail: imagination and belief, Richard Barber | work = New Statesman | date = February 2, 2004 | accessdate = 2013-07-12| quote = My heart sinks on the all-too frequent occasions when I am invited to review a book about the Holy Grail. The subject has recently inspired some very silly fantasies and conspiracy theories, in which authors try to demonstrate the "secret truth" of Christianity or claim to have discovered the Grail in the cellar of their family home. Richard Barber, however, has written a serious and useful history of the Grail legend, which should dispel some of the more lunatic theories.| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-540761631.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140611030020/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-540761631.html | dead-url = yes | archive-date = June 11, 2014 | publisher = {{Subscription required|via=HighBeam}} }} 4. ^{{cite news | last = Arditti| first = Michael | title = Hot on the trail of the elusive Grail; Books ON FRIDAY: Critic's choice | work = Daily Mail (London) | date = January 16, 2004 | accessdate = 2013-07-12 | url = https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-112259969 | publisher = |via=Questia Online Library |url-access=subscription }} 5. ^{{cite web| last = Sullivan| first = Will| title=Paperbacks—The latest paperbacks reviewed|url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24780838.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140611030030/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24780838.html |dead-url= yes |archive-date= 2014-06-11 |publisher=The Irish Times |accessdate=12 July 2013|date=January 2005 | quote = Barber succeeds, through historical examination and solid storytelling skills, in making this work as imaginative and interesting as its subject}}{{Subscription required|via=HighBeam}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/books/books-of-the-times-a-cup-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow.html|title=Review: A Cup at the End of the Rainbow|last=Kakatuni|first=Michiko|date=February 20, 2004|work=The New York Times|accessdate=21 December 2012}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.tnr.com/article/tempest-cup#|title=Review: Tempest in A Cup|last=Jenkyns|first=Richard|date=October 4, 2004|work=The New Republic|accessdate=21 December 2012}} External links
10 : Living people|British medievalists|British writers|Fellows of the Royal Historical Society|Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature|1941 births|Place of birth missing (living people)|Holy Grail|Arthurian scholars|Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。