Rossell Hope Robbins Author

Rossell Hope Robbins, collaborator with Carleton Brown in the original Index, is a graduate of the University of Liverpool and holds the Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University. The editor of two major collections of Middle English verse, Secular Lyrics of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Historical Poems of the XIVth and the XVth Centuries, he has undertaken since 1947 an extensive reexamination of the medieval manuscript collections in England, which were inaccessible for checking when the original Index was published because of the war.