Item 128 - Letter from J. H. Whitfield to James Smith

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SMIJ/1/128

Title

Letter from J. H. Whitfield to James Smith

Date(s)

  • 14 Mar. 1939 (Creation)

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2 single sheets

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110 Banbury Road, Oxford.—Is unconvinced by [C. H.] Haskins’s notion of a twelfth-century Renaissance. Disparages medieval philosophy, and observes that Petrarch seems to mark an innovation in his concern with conduct rather than speculation. But he doesread more

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