The Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood - Malcolm Craig

The Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood

A wayward compass in Lakeland

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
270 Seiten
2018
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-78491-871-2 (ISBN)
33,50 inkl. MwSt
This well researched biography provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932), a nineteenth century polymath whose story should be better known. He was a noted friend and colleague of John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became.
The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood travelled extensively, sketching as he went, and after studying at the Slade School of Art, moved to the Lake District where he wrote extensively about the Lakes, Icelandic sagas and Norse mythology, as well as publishing a biography on Ruskin in 1893. He was an accomplished artist, founding the Lake Artists Society in 1904 and serving as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading from 1905-11. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into the Pre-Norman Crosses of Cumbria and the North of England. In 1927 he published ‘Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age’, illustrated with his own drawings. He was also an accomplished musician, climber, swimmer and walker. His son was the noted archaeologist (a leading authority on Roman Britain), philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood. This well researched biography provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of a nineteenth century polymath whose story should be better known.

Malcolm Craig PhD lives with his wife Margaret in Histon, Cambridgeshire; they have a daughter, Alison and son, Andrew. He began working life as a marine engineer in the Merchant Navy, his voyages taking him to the far east and twice around the world. A keen mountaineer, between voyages he worked in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Austria. He became Chief Instructor at Outward Bound schools in Wales and Malaysia before moving back to engineering as a Training Manager in shipbuilding. He joined the Industrial Training Research Unit in Cambridge and completed a PhD in engineering at Cranfield Institute of Technology (now University), where he subsequently lectured, and worked as a Tutor for the Open University in Britain and Russia. He has written seven books, most with mountains as a theme, and became interested in the work of W.G. Collingwood while rock climbing as a young man in the English Lake District.

Chronology ;


Preface ;


Chapter I Collingwood Family (1761-1854) ;


Chapter II Boyhood (1854-1872) ;


Chapter III Student Days (1872-1876) ;


Chapter IV Becoming an Artist (1876-1882) ;


Chapter V Edith Isaac (Dorrie) and Marriage (1877-1884) ;


Chapter VI Life at Gillhead Windermere (1883-1891) ;


Chapter VII Working with Ruskin (1881-1900) ;


Chapter VIII Life in Lakeland (1891-1932) ;


Chapter IX Researching the Past (1884-1932) ;


Chapter X Scandinavian Studies (1895-1928) ;


Chapter XI Academia and Lanehead (1905-1917) ;


Chapter XII Naval Intelligence (1917-1919) ;


Chapter XIII Later Research (1920-1930) ;


Chapter XIV Future of Lakeland (1932-) ;


Chapter XV Father and Son (1889-1932) ;


Chapter XVI Last Years (1928-1932) ;


Notes ;


Appendix A ;


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Archaeological Lives
Zusatzinfo 38 figures, 13 plates in colour
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-78491-871-7 / 1784918717
ISBN-13 978-1-78491-871-2 / 9781784918712
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