Gray Cowan Boyce (19 February 1899 - 14 May 1981) was an American medieval historian and historical bibliographer whose masterwork was his five volume Literature of Medieval History, 1930–1975: A Supplement to Louis John Paetow's "A Guide to the Study of Medieval History" (1981).
Boyce's interests increasingly tended towards bibliography and scholarly standards. He was on the editorial board of The American Historical Review and one correspondent with that journal quoted approvingly a Boyce review elsewhere where Boyce had said of the reviewed work: "For 364 pages of text there are almost 200 pages of notes. In the opinion of the writer these notes contain material that is not only essential for such a work, but include matter which is frequently as informing and exciting as the narrative itself. A remarkably rich and well-ordered bibliography of forty pages and indexes ... complete the book."[2]
After his retirement, Boyce moved back to Alameda where he lived with his sister Merle and was able to complete his masterwork, a five volume Literature of Medieval History, 1930–1975: A Supplement to Louis John Paetow's "A Guide to the Study of Medieval History" (1981). In later life he suffered from Parkinson's disease and glaucoma.[1]
The University of Prague: Modern problems of the German university in Czechoslavakia, Robert Hale, 1937. (With William Harbutt Dawson)
Literature of Medieval History, 1930–1975: A Supplement to Louis John Paetow's "A Guide to the Study of Medieval History", Kraus, Millwood, N.Y., 1981. (five volumes)
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^ abcdGuide to the Gray Boyce (1899-1981) Papers. 2015-10-07 at the Wayback Machine Northwestern University Library Archival and Manuscript Collections. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^"Communications", The American Historical Review, Vol. 56, No. 4 (July 1951), pp. 1040-1042.
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