The latest issue of UofT Magazine features Monique and Haijo Westra. Haijo finished his PhD at the Centre in 1979 and taught for many years Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. He has now retired from teaching. It was at UofT that he and his wife met.
Alumni
Shami Ghosh: Kings’ Sagas and Norwegian History
CMS alumnus Shami Ghosh’s new book has just come out! Congratulations, Shami!
The book examines “of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings’ sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse and prose and the reliability as historical sources of the verse alone or the combination of verse and prose; the possibility and extent of non-native influence on the composition of these texts; and the function of the past, in particular given that most of the historiography of Norway was produced in Iceland.”
U of T celebrates the work of Professor Michael Lapidge
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Michael Lapidge is one of CMS’s earliest and most distinguished graduates, having retired in 1999 as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge and having played an important role in the development of Cambridge’s distinguished department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. On June 10, the University of Toronto awarded him an honorary doctorate.