ROUSE, Richard H(unter) 1933-

PERSONAL: Born August 14, 1933, in Boston, MA; son of Hunter and Dorothy (Husmert) Rouse; married Mary Ames (a medieval historian and writer), September 7, 1959; children: Thomas Richard, Andrew Hunter, Jonathan Joseph. Education: University of Iowa, B.A., 1955; University of Chicago, M.A., 1957; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1963.

ADDRESSES: Home—11444 Berwick St., Los Angeles, CA 90049. Office—Department of History, University of California—Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1485.

CAREER: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, reference librarian, 1957-58; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant curator of manuscripts for Houghton Library, 1962-63; University of California—Los Angeles, assistant professor, 1963-69, associate professor, 1969-75, professor of history, 1975—, associate director of Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1967-68. University of Pennsylvania, Rosenback Lecturer, 1975; Oxford University, visiting fellow of All Souls College, 1978-79. St. John's University, member of advisory board for Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library, 1970—. Comité International de Paleographie, member, beginning c. 1973.

MEMBER: International Society for the Study of Mediaeval Philosophy, Mediaeval Academy of America (fellow), Medieval Association of the Pacific (president, 1968-72).

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1972-73; Guggenheim fellow, 1975-76; fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981-83.

WRITINGS:

Guide to Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1969.

(Coeditor) Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, seven volumes, beginning 1970.

(With wife, M. A. Rouse) Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons: Studies on the Manipuluo Florum of Thomas of Ireland, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 1979.

(Member of editorial board, with C. W. Dutschke and D. J. Dutschke) Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Claremont Libraries, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1986.

(With M. A. Rouse) Cartolai, Illuminators, and Printers in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Evidence of the Ripoli Press, Department of Special Collections, University of California—Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), 1988.

(Editor, with Louis J. Bataillon and Bertrand G. Guyot) La production du livre universitaire au Moyen Age: exemplar et pecia, Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris, France), 1988.

(Editor, with C. W. Dutschke and Sara S. Hodson) Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, two volumes, Huntington Library (San Marino, CA), 1989.

(Editor, with M. A. Rouse, and coauthor of introduction and notes) Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, British Library (London, England), 1991.

(With M. A. Rouse) Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 1991.

(Editor) Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.

(With M. A. Rouse) Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500, two volumes, Harvey Miller (Turnhout, Belgium), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to R. W. Hunt,Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1975. Contributor to periodicals, including Studies in Cistercian History and Speculum.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Book Collector, summer, 1992, review of Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, p. 161.

Catholic Historical Review, April, 1982, review of Preachers, Florilegia, and Sermons: Studies on the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland, p. 308.

Libraries and Culture, fall, 1993, review of Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, p. 476; winter, 1995, review of Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, p. 115.

Library, December, 1994, review of Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, p. 335.

Library Quarterly, April, 1994, review of Authentic Witnesses, p. 216.

Modern Language Review, April, 1995, review of Authentic Witnesses, p. 339.

Religious Studies Review, July, 1987, review of Preachers, Florilegia, and Sermons, p. 267.

Speculum, January, 1982, review of Preachers, Florilegia, and Sermons, p. 220; January, 1994, review of Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, p. 248.

Times Literary Supplement, August 14, 1992, review of Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, p. 24; December 21, 2001, John Lowden, review of Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500, p. 29.*