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Hector Munro Chadwick
Born(1870-10-22)22 October 1870
Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire, England
Died2 January 1947(1947-01-02) (aged 76)
Cambridge, England
Spouse
Nora Kershaw
(after 1922)
Academic background
Alma mater
  • Clare College, Cambridge
Academic advisors
  • Walter William Skeat
Influences
  • Paul Du Chaillu
Academic work
Discipline
  • Celtic studies
  • Germanic studies
Sub-discipline
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Celts
  • Epic poetry
Institutions
  • University of Cambridge
Notable works
  • The Origin of the English Nation (1907)
  • The Heroic Age (1912)
  • (With Nora K. Chadwick) The Growth of Literature (1932–1940)
Notable ideasHeroic Age

Hector Munro Chadwick FBA (22 October 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English philologist. Chadwick was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and the founder and head of the Department for Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge. Chadwick was well known for his encouragement of interdisciplinary research on Celts and Germanic peoples, and for his theories on the Heroic Age in the history of human societies. Chadwick was a tutor of many notable students and the author of numerous influential works in his fields of study. Much of his research and teaching was conducted in cooperation with his wife, former student and fellow Cambridge scholar Nora Kershaw.

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Oral literature

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Shamanism

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2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine) Tomaskova, 2013, 76–78, 104–105. Chadwick, Hector Munro; Chadwick, Nora Kershaw (1968). The Growth of Literature. The University...

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Epic of King Gesar

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language. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-1099-8. Chadwick, Hector Munro; Chadwick, Nora Kershaw (1940). The Growth of Literature. Vol. 3 (Reprinted...

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Thornhill Lees

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Thornhill Lees Infant & Nursery School and Headfield Junior School. Hector Munro Chadwick, a philologist, was born in Thornhill Lees. "Headfield School"....

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Agnes Jane Robertson

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(1893-1959) was a historian of Anglo-Saxon England. She was a student of Hector Munro Chadwick in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University...

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Sophus Bugge

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(philologist) Gudmund Schütte Birger Nerman Gabriel Turville-Petre Hector Munro Chadwick Bertha Phillpotts Rudolf Much Otto Höfler René Derolez Lee M. Hollander...

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Deda mac Sin

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Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts Press. 2nd revised edition, 2001. Hector Munro Chadwick, Early Scotland: the Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of southern...

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Andy Orchard

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Medieval Library. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0884024774. Hector Munro Chadwick Gabriel Turville-Petre Jan de Vries (philologist) John Lindow Rudolf...

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Hilda Ellis Davidson

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Fox and B. Dickens (eds.), The Early Cultures of North-West Europe (H.M. Chadwick Memorial Studies), 123–9, London. (1958) The Golden Age of Northumbria...

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producer Marouf al-Bakhit, twice Prime Minister of Jordan January 2 – Hector Munro Chadwick, English philologist (b. 1870) January 3 – Al Herpin, French-born...

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List of University of Cambridge people

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David Cannadine (Clare/Christ's) E. H. Carr (Trinity) Hector Munro Chadwick (Clare) John Chadwick (Corpus Christi) Sir John Clapham (King's) Alfred Cobban...

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Gartnait II Duberr of the Picts

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legendary fourth century Pictish monarch known only from regnal lists. Chadwick, Hector Munro (1949). Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern...

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Uradech

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legendary fourth century Pictish monarch known only from regnal lists. Chadwick, Hector Munro (1949). Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern...

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Canutulachama

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legendary fourth century Pictish monarch known only from regnal lists. Chadwick, Hector Munro (1949). Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern...

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Talorc mac Achiuir

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Achiuir is a legendary Pictish monarch known only from regnal lists. Chadwick, Hector Munro (1949). Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern...

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Vita Merlini

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exposition, picturesque detail with swift narrative. For Nora and Hector Munro Chadwick the Vita was merely "a typical production of a literary dilettante"...

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Albanian epic poetry

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Tribal Hidage

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decades, articles were published by William John Corbett (1900), Hector Munro Chadwick (1905) and John Brownbill (1912 and 1925). The most important subsequent...

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Dorothy Whitelock

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in her year to study for Section B of the English Tripos under Hector Munro Chadwick. She gained a First in Part I and a Second in Part II. Whitelock...

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