Colin Robert Chase

Colin Robert Chase
Colin Robert Chase (February 5, 1935 – October 13, 1984) was

Colin Chase
an American academic. An associate professor of English at the
University of Toronto, he was known for his contributions to the
studies of Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. His best-known
work, The Dating of Beowulf, challenged the accepted orthodoxy
of the dating of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, which was then
thought to be a date in the latter half of the eighth century but now
thought to be near the end of the first millennium, and he left
behind what was described in A Beowulf Handbook as "a cautious
and necessary incertitude".[1][2]
Born in Denver, Chase was one of three sons of a newspaper

executive and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Mary Coyle
Chase. Chase's two brothers became actors; he considered such a
career, but ultimately studied English literature, classics, and
philosophy. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard
University, Master of Arts from Saint Louis and Johns Hopkins
Universities, and PhD from the University of Toronto in 1971, the Chase in 1980
same year the university named him an assistant professor.
Born Colin Robert Chase
In addition to The Dating of Beowulf, Chase penned Two Alcuin February 5, 1935
Letter-Books—a scholarly collection of twenty-four letters by the Denver, Colorado,
eighth-century scholar Alcuin. He also wrote some eight articles U.S.
and chapters, contributed to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, and
Died October 13, 1984
for nearly a decade wrote the Beowulf section of "This Year's Work
(aged 49)
in Old English Studies" for the Old English Newsletter. Chase died
of cancer in 1984, shortly before his anticipated promotion to full Education Harvard University
professor. (BA)
Saint Louis
Early life and education University (MA)
Johns Hopkins
Colin Robert Chase was born in Denver, Colorado, on February 5, University (MA)
1935.[3] His father, Robert Lamont Chase, was a newspaper
University of
executive, and his mother, Mary Coyle Chase, a playwright who
went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945 for her play, Toronto (PhD)
Harvey.[4][5] Colin Chase had two brothers, Michael Lamont Occupation English professor
Chase and Barry Jerome "Jerry" Chase.[4] All three pursued an Years active 1971–1984
interest in acting. Michael Chase attended the Carnegie Institute of
Technology School of Drama, and was a member of the cast of the Notable work The Dating of
Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia.[6][7] Jerry Chase acted in Beowulf (1981)
plays and movies, including one of his mother's plays when 14 Two Alcuin Letter-
years old,[8][9][10] and wrote the play Cinderella Wore Combat Books (1975)
Boots.[5][11] Colin Chase, meanwhile, nearly pursued an acting
Spouse Joyce Breitbach
career, and would later perform in campus stage productions.[3]
Children 5
Chase grew up in Denver, where he attended Teller Elementary Signature
School.[12] The success of his mother's play Harvey led to some
bullying in fourth grade, leading his mother to write a guest column
about it in the Dunkirk Evening Observer.[12] He obtained his
Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1956, and studied classics and philosophy for five years at a
Jesuit seminary.[3] In 1962 he received a Master of Arts from Saint Louis University, and in 1964 he
received a second from Johns Hopkins University;[13][3] he matriculated at the University of Toronto the
same year, became a part-time instructor there in 1967, and completed his PhD in 1971.[3][14] His
dissertation was entitled Panel Structure in Old English Poetry.[14]
Career
Chase became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 1971, the same year he completed his
PhD.[3] Four years later he was promoted to associate professor.[3] At the university he taught a wide
variety of classes and had many doctoral students.[3] He was a faculty member of St. Michael's College and
the Centre for Medieval Studies; from 1977 until 1984, he chaired the Centre's Medieval Latin
Committee.[3]
Much of Chase's work was on Old English and Anglo-Latin literature, and he focused his research on the
pre-conquest literature of England.[3] He was particularly known for his 1981 edited collection The Dating
of Beowulf, and from 1976 served as the chief reviewer of the Beowulf section of "The Year's Work in Old
English Studies" in the Old English Newsletter.[3] Chase's other major publication was a 1975 scholarly
edition of Two Alcuin Letter-Books,[3][15] which collected twenty-four letters written by the eighth-century
scholar Alcuin.[16][17] Collected for Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, two centuries after Alcuin's death, the
letters were preserved in a manuscript from the Cotton collection at the British Library, and many were
apparently intended as didactic messages rather than personal correspondence; others were "model letters"
including 'thank you' notes and 'get well' cards, likely to help students learn how to compose letters in
Latin.[18][16] Chase also wrote eight articles, and contributed to three videos made by the Toronto Media
Centre, most popularly The Sutton Hoo ship-burial, about the Anglo-Saxon ship-burial unearthed at Sutton
Hoo in Suffolk.[3] He additionally served as an administrative committee member at the early stages of the
project to revise Jack Ogilvy's Books Known to the English and create a reference work mapping the
sources that influenced the literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England.[3][19][20]
The Dating of Beowulf was credited with challenging the accepted orthodoxy over the date that the epic
poem was created.[21][22] The Old English poem, surviving in a single manuscript from the turn of the
millennium, attracted considerable interest after its first modern publication in 1815, and spawned what was
termed in A Beowulf Handbook as a "bewildering debate about perhaps the most vexing problems in
Beowulf scholarship: when was the poem composed, where, by whom, for whom?"[23] Chase's
introduction, "Opinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815–1980"—which one reviewer termed "an essay
commendable both for its balance and its economy" [24]—traced a century and a half of academic discourse
over the first of these questions, which, having started with a first tentative date of the poem of shortly after
the fourth century, had by 1980 consistently settled on a date in the latter half of the eighth century.[25] Each
chapter used a different approach, such as historical, metrical, stylistic, and codicological, to try to date the
poem.[24] Chase's own attempt at dating looked at the poem's balanced attitude towards heroic culture,
reflecting both appreciation and admonition, to suggest that "Beowulf was written at a time when heroic
culture could be treated fully and positively but without romanticizing, by an author neither afraid nor
infatuated."[26] Given the paucity of material with which to trace the evolution of historical perspectives,
Chase turned to the better-known lives of the saints from the time period.[27] Seeing early lives which
appeared "to avoid and even suppress significant exploitation" of heroic culture and values, and later lives
which moved "towards a celebration of heroic values in a way that has been fully integrated with Anglo-
Saxon culture", Chase suggested that "Beowulf is likely to have been written neither early, in the eighth
century, nor late, in the tenth, but in the rapidly changing and chaotic ninth".[27] Other chapters, meanwhile,
by scholars such as Peter Clemoes and Kevin Kiernan, suggested a date for the poem as early as the eighth
century, and as late as the eleventh.[28] In the book's wake came what was described in A Beowulf
Handbook as "a cautious and necessary incertitude".[1][2] An anonymous reviewer of the book termed it
"one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English", and declared that "henceforth every
discussion of the poem and its period will begin with reference to this volume."[29][30]
Chase died in 1984 while his promotion to full professor was underway.[3] At the time he was working on a
study of the lives of the saints, and had started a new series of editions of the lives of the pre-conquest
saints.[3] The scholar Paul E. Szarmach wrote that Chase "taught us much by his scholarship and by his
personal example, and we are in great measure diminished".[31] The Centre for Medieval Studies at the
University of Toronto, matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund, awards the Colin Chase
Memorial Bursary each year in Chase's memory.[3][32] The scholarship goes to "a graduate student in the
Centre for Medieval Studies, on the basis of academic excellence and financial need".[32]
Personal life
Chase had a wife, Joyce (née Breitbach), and five children: Deirdre, Robert, Tim, Mary, and
Patrick.[3][33][34] He was a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church, and participated in its training
program.[3] He died of cancer in 1984.[3] His wife died in 2003, also of cancer.[33]
Publications
Books
Chase, Colin (1971). Panel Structure in Old English Poetry (PhD). Toronto: University of
Toronto. ProQuest 302621579 (https://search.proquest.com/docview/302621579).
Chase, Colin, ed. (1975). Two Alcuin Letter-Books (https://archive.org/details/twoalcuinletter
b0000alcu). Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Vol. 5. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies. ISBN 0-88844-454-0.
Chase, Colin, ed. (1981). The Dating of Beowulf (https://archive.org/details/datingofbeowulf0
000unse). Toronto Old English Series. Vol. 6. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-
8020-7879-6. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1287v33 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287v3
3).
Includes two chapters written by Chase:
Chase, Colin. "Opinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815–1980" (https://archive.org/

details/datingofbeowulf0000unse/page/n15). The Dating of Beowulf. pp. 3–8.
JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1287v33.5 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287v33.
5).
Chase, Colin. "Saints' Lives, Royal Lives, and the Date of Beowulf" (https://archiv
e.org/details/datingofbeowulf0000unse/page/160). The Dating of Beowulf.
pp. 161–172. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1287v33.15 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.31
38/j.ctt1287v33.15).
Chapters
Chase, Colin (1981). "Alcuin's Grammar Verse: Poetry and Truth in Carolingian Pedagogy".
In Herren, Michael W. (ed.). Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of
the British Isles: 550–1066. Papers in Mediaeval Studies. Vol. 1. Toronto: Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies. pp. 135–152. ISBN 0-88844-801-5.
Chase, Colin (1983). "The Age of Ælfric". In Szarmach, Paul E. (ed.). Anglo-Latin in the
Context of Old English Literature. Old English Newsletter Subsidia. Vol. 9. Binghamton, New
York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at
Binghamton. pp. 17–24. ISSN 0739-8549 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0739-8549).
Abstract published as Chase, Colin (Spring 1983). "Anglo-Latin in the Context of Old
English Literature: the Age of Ælfric" (http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN16
_2.pdf) (PDF). Old English Newsletter. Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval
and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. 16 (2):
51. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0030-1973).
Chase, Colin (1985). "Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's Pride in Old English
Hagiography". In Woods, J. Douglas & Pelteret, David A. E. (eds.). The Anglo-Saxons:
Synthesis and Achievement. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 37–48. ISBN 0-
88920-166-8.
Chase, Colin (1986). "Source Study as a Trick with Mirrors: Annihilation of Meaning in the
Old English "Mary of Egypt" " (https://archive.org/details/sourcesofanglosa0000unse/page/2
3). In Szarmach, Paul Edward & Oggins, Virginia Darrow (eds.). Sources of Anglo-Saxon
Culture. Studies in Medieval Culture. Vol. 20. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute
Publications. pp. 23–33. ISBN 0-918720-67-2.
Republished as Chase, Colin (2000). "Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's
Pride in Old English Hagiography". In Baker, Peter S. (ed.). The Beowulf Reader.
Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge. pp. 181–194.
ISBN 0-8153-3666-7.
Articles
Chase, Colin (December 1974). "God's Presence Through Grace as the Theme of
Cynewulf's Christ II and the Relationship of this Theme to Christ I and Christ III". Anglo-
Saxon England. London: Cambridge University Press. 3: 87–101.
doi:10.1017/S0263675100000600 (https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0263675100000600).
S2CID 162472640 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162472640).
Chase, Colin (Spring 1981). "Background for Nostalgia in the Hagiography of Late Anglo-
Saxon England" (http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN14_2.pdf) (PDF). Old
English Newsletter. Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance
Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. 14 (2): 30–31. ISSN 0030-1973 (http
s://www.worldcat.org/issn/0030-1973).
Chase, Colin (Spring 1983). "Mary of Egypt and the Seven Holy Sleepers: A Methodological
Inquiry" (http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN16_2.pdf) (PDF). Old English
Newsletter. Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies,
State University of New York at Binghamton. 16 (2): 66. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldc
at.org/issn/0030-1973).
Chase, Colin (Spring 1984). "The Yellow Brick Road to St. Anthony and St. Guthlac: or 'You
Can't Get There from Here' " (http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN17_2.pdf) (PDF).
Old English Newsletter. Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance
Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. 17 (2): A-35–A-36. ISSN 0030-1973 (ht
tps://www.worldcat.org/issn/0030-1973).
Reviews
Chase, Colin (November 1976). "Review of Ingeld and Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values
in Old English Christian Poetry, by Michael D. Cherniss". The Review of English Studies.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. XXVII (108): 448–450. doi:10.1093/res/XXVII.108.448 (https://doi.o
rg/10.1093%2Fres%2FXXVII.108.448). JSTOR 513799 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/51379
9).
Chase, Colin (Summer 1980). "Review of The Early Charters of the Thames Valley, by
Margaret Gellin". Albion. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian State University Department of
History. 12 (2): 175–176. doi:10.2307/4048817 (https://doi.org/10.2307%2F4048817).
JSTOR 4048817 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/4048817).
Chase, Colin (Winter 1983). "Review of Alcuin: The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York,
edited by Peter Godman". Albion. New Series. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian State
University Department of History. 15 (4): 343–344. doi:10.2307/4049139 (https://doi.org/10.2
307%2F4049139). JSTOR 4049139 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/4049139).
Chase, Colin (July 1985). "Review of The Old English Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and
Research, edited by Martin Green". Speculum. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval
Academy of America. 60 (3): 680–682. doi:10.2307/2848198 (https://doi.org/10.2307%2F284
8198). JSTOR 2848198 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2848198).
Other
This Year's Work in Old English Studies
Chase, Colin (Fall 1976). "This Year's Work in Old English Studies – 1975: Beowulf" (http://
www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN10_1-2.pdf) (PDF). Old English Newsletter.
Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State
University of New York at Binghamton. X (1): 59–63. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldcat.
org/issn/0030-1973).
www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN11_1.pdf) (PDF). Old English Newsletter.
University of New York at Binghamton. XI (1): 54–59. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldcat.
org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XII (1): 54–60. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldca
t.org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XIII (1): 44–48. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldca
t.org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XIV (1): 48–52. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldc
at.org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XV (1): 95–101. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldc
at.org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XVI (1): 69–79. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldc
at.org/issn/0030-1973).
University of New York at Binghamton. XVII (1): 82–92. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.worldc
at.org/issn/0030-1973).
Chase, Colin & Taylor, Andrew (Fall 1984). "This Year's Work in Old English Studies – 1983:
Beowulf" (http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN18_1.pdf) (PDF). Old English
Newsletter. Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies,
State University of New York at Binghamton. XVIII (1): 89–97. ISSN 0030-1973 (https://www.
worldcat.org/issn/0030-1973).
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Chase, Colin (1982). "Acrostics–Wordplay" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0001

unse/page/44). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York
City: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0-684-16760-3.
Chase, Colin (1982). "Alfred the Great" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0001uns
e/page/162). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York City:
Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 163–164. ISBN 0-684-16760-3.
Chase, Colin (1982). "Alfred the Great and Translations" (https://archive.org/details/dictionar
yofmidd0001unse/page/164). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages.
Vol. 1. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 164–167. ISBN 0-684-16760-3.
Chase, Colin (1982). "Anglo-Latin Poetry" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0001u
nse/page/254). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 1. New York
City: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 254–255. ISBN 0-684-16760-3.
Chase, Colin (1983). "Beowulf" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0002unse_r7d0/p
age/182). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2. New York City:
Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 182–185. ISBN 0-684-17022-1.
Chase, Colin (1983). "Carolingian Latin Poetry" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0
003unse/page/98). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 3. New
York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 99–103. ISBN 0-684-17023-X.
Chase, Colin (1985). "Frithegod" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0005unse_j0m
2). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 5. New York City: Charles
Scribner's Sons. p. 302. ISBN 0-684-18161-4.
Chase, Colin (1987). "Modoin" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0008unse/page/4
50). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 8. New York City: Charles
Scribner's Sons. p. 451. ISBN 0-684-18274-2.
Chase, Colin (1987). "Paul the Deacon" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0009uns
e_f9h6/page/466). In Strayer, Joseph R. (ed.). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Vol. 9. New
York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 467–468. ISBN 0-684-18275-0.
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Colin Robert Chase (February 5, 1935 – October 13, 1984) was

Born in Denver, Chase was one of three sons of a newspaper

Includes two chapters written by Chase:

Chase, Colin. "Opinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815–1980" (https://archive.org/

This Year's Work in Old English Studies

Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Chase, Colin (1982). "Acrostics–Wordplay" (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0001

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