"scholastic humanism" of the title) was to have a major influence on Western culture beyond the schools, as scholars and school-educated men moved out of the schools and took important roles in the government and the church. In addition to these major works, Southern also wrote several works that have not had quite as much influence on medieval scholarship. His brief Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages represents a relatively early effort to describe medieval attitudes towards Islam, identifying three stages in their development. His Medieval Humanism and Other Studies states first several themes that would be later developed in Scholastic Humanism. His Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages is a textbook survey like The Making of the Middle Ages but has not received quite as much attention as his earlier work. Works Ranulf Flambard and Early Anglo-Norman Administration, Alexander Prize Essay (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, December 1933) The Making of the Middle Ages (Yale University Press, 1953) Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 1962) The Life of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Eadmer (as editor and translator) (Nelson, 1962; 2nd ed. 1972) St Anselm and His Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059–c.1130 (Cambridge University Press, 1963) Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Penguin, 1970) Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (1970) Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe (Oxford University Press, 1986, 2nd ed. 1992) review St. Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (Cambridge University Press, 1992) Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Vol. I and Vol. II (Wiley, 1997, 2001) History and Historians: Selected Papers of R. W. Southern, edited by Robert Bartlett (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) References External links Gifford Lecture biography – By Dr Michael W DeLashmutt Palmer, William. "Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1998. The Guardian obituary 1912 births 2001 deaths People from Newcastle upon Tyne People educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne British medievalists Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Presidents of St John's College, Oxford Presidents of the Royal Historical Society Chichele Professors of Modern History 20th-century English historians Fellows of the British Academy Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America