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Edward Kennard Rand
1871–1945
A leading American scholar of Latin and the Middle Ages, he spent more than four decades teaching at Harvard and helped shape modern medieval studies. His books explored how Roman culture and learning continued into medieval Europe.
2 Audiobooks
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe, Edward Kennard Rand
The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot
by Edward Kennard Rand
About the author
Born in Boston in 1871, Edward Kennard Rand became one of the best-known American classicists of his time. He studied at Harvard and then spent most of his career there, serving as Pope Professor of Latin from 1901 until 1942. His work ranged from classical poetry to medieval manuscripts, with a lasting interest in how the ancient and medieval worlds were connected.
Rand is especially remembered for arguing that Roman civilization did not simply vanish after antiquity, but continued in important ways through the Middle Ages. That idea reached a wide audience through books including Founders of the Middle Ages. He also helped build the field institutionally, including founding the Mediaeval Academy of America and launching its journal Speculum.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945. Readers coming to his work today will find a scholar who combined close reading with a broad historical view, and who wrote with real enthusiasm for the long life of Latin culture.