Identity area
Reference code
SMIJ/1/128
Title
Letter from J. H. Whitfield to James Smith
Date(s)
- 14 Mar. 1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 single sheets
Context area
Name of creator
(1904-1972)
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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 does… read more