Chadwick, H. Munro

Chadwick, H. Munro

▪ British historian
in full  Hector Munro Chadwick  
born Oct. 22, 1870, Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire, Eng.
died Jan. 2, 1947, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

      English philologist and historian, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1912–41), who helped develop an integral approach to Old English studies.

      The son of an Anglican vicar in Yorkshire, Chadwick attended Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge (1889–93). In 1893 he became a fellow of his college.

      Chadwick began his career as a classical philologist but early turned to the history and literature of Britain in the early Middle Ages, first the Germanic and later also the Celtic. Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions (1905); The Origin of the English Nation (1907); The Heroic Age (1912); and, in collaboration with his wife, Nora, The Growth of Literature, 3 vol. (1932–40), are his most important works. The first two are valuable for the light that they throw on the early history of the Anglo-Saxons. The third shows Chadwick developing a method of comparative literature and, by comparison of Greek and Germanic heroic poetry, elaborating the concept of the “Heroic Age” as a stage in the growth of civilization reflected in early epics. In The Growth of Literature this is applied to every kind of early literature, thus illuminating the origin and development of many literary genres in Greek, Germanic, Celtic, Slavonic, Sanskrit, Eskimo, Polynesian, and so on.

      Chadwick always insisted on treating a civilization as a whole. Britain in the early Middle Ages meant to him not only history and institutions but also the literature, archaeology, art, languages, place-names, etc., of all the peoples who lived there. He founded at Cambridge the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, section B.

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