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Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)

Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022) Nigel Palmer. © John Cairns. Photo courtesy of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from their memorial site for Professor Palmer: <https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/remembering-emeritus-fellow-professor-nigel-palmer>. With thanks to Henrike Lähnemann for helping to source this image.When Nigel Palmer died on 8 May 2022 at the age of 75, the news came as a shock to his many friends. During the pandemic, he had become something of a recluse, rarely leaving the house and lamenting the fact that the social interactions in college and beyond, which had been so important to him, were no longer possible. Yet despite pandemic-induced isolation and severe illness, he was as active a correspondent as ever and had been in frequent email exchange with colleagues, sending out electronic offprints of articles regularly and corresponding with his closest collaborator only days before his death about their project on the Charterhouse in Mainz. He leaves behind a close-knit family as well as an international network of colleagues who often became friends. His scholarly work has changed how literary scholars look at manuscripts; he was at home in German philological scholarship as much as Anglophone cultural studies, and built bridges between the two intellectual cultures.After attending Hyde Grammar School, he studied Modern Languages http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)

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Nigel Palmer. © John Cairns. Photo courtesy of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from their memorial site for Professor Palmer: <https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/remembering-emeritus-fellow-professor-nigel-palmer>. With thanks to Henrike Lähnemann for helping to source this image.When Nigel Palmer died on 8 May 2022 at the age of 75, the news came as a shock to his many friends. During the pandemic, he had become something of a recluse, rarely leaving the house and lamenting the fact that the social interactions in college and beyond, which had been so important to him, were no longer possible. Yet despite pandemic-induced isolation and severe illness, he was as active a correspondent as ever and had been in frequent email exchange with colleagues, sending out electronic offprints of articles regularly and corresponding with his closest collaborator only days before his death about their project on the Charterhouse in Mainz. He leaves behind a close-knit family as well as an international network of colleagues who often became friends. His scholarly work has changed how literary scholars look at manuscripts; he was at home in German philological scholarship as much as Anglophone cultural studies, and built bridges between the two intellectual cultures.After attending Hyde Grammar School, he studied Modern Languages

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2022

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