• In MemoriamIoannis Oastler Wardii
• John Pryor

John Oastler Ward was born in Melbourne in 1940 and died in Canberra on 29 April 2023. Into the eighty-three years in between he packed an extraordinary, multifaceted life. As well as for his academic scholarship and teaching he was renowned for his civic commitment, his love of music, especially of opera, of the age of steam locomotives, and of books and photography. At his and Gail’s fiftieth wedding anniversary lunch his son proudly proclaimed that at the latest count John’s library ran to 2200 linear feet of books, probably close to thirty thousand volumes. What on earth his family will do with them defies belief.

John gained First Class Honours at Melbourne University (1960), writing his thesis under the supervision of Marion (Molly) Gibbs, by whom he was much influenced and with whom he maintained a close relationship until her death in 1995. In 1963 he went to Canada to the newly established Centre for Medieval Studies, where he gained an MA in 1964 and then proceeded to a PhD under the guidance of fathers J. Reginald O’Donnell and Nicolaus Häring of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. He was awarded a Lectureship in Medieval History at the University of Sydney in 1967, where he remained as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (from 1973) and eventually Reader (from 2000). Because the History Department already had another John Ward on its staff, John became known universally and affectionately as JOW. His monumental PhD thesis was not completed until 1972: ‘Artificiosa eloquentia in the Middle Ages: A Study of Cicero’s De inventione, the Ad Herennium and Quintilian’s De institutione oratoria from the Early Middle Ages to the Thirteenth Century, with Special Reference to the Schools of Northern France’.¹ Much of the thesis consisted of extensive descriptions of texts in a very large number of manuscripts that John had tracked down in collections across Europe and the Americas. Until 1972 the University of Toronto had had no limits on the length of PhD theses, but JOW’s induced it to introduce one. The thesis was not published until 2019,² but over the years JOW continued to work on it and update it and it became known widely and cited frequently.

By the mid-90s JOW had published over ten important articles and papers on the medieval rhetorical tradition and was already a well-known and important scholar in the field.³ This was augmented by the nature of his participation in [End Page 1] conferences, workshops, and symposia. He was invariably among the most active of participants, with much to say about all and sundry, not infrequently with a degree of courteous mischief. The publication in 1995 of a major monograph, Ciceronian Rhetoric in Treatise, Scholion and Commentary,⁴ which incorporated a good deal of material from the still-unpublished thesis, cemented this standing internationally. From then on he became a doyen of the international community of scholars. Even after his retirement he remained actively engaged in collaborative research,⁵ and was a regular participant in the activities of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre as well as continuing to participate in scholarly activities overseas.

JOW had an extraordinary mind: wide-ranging, amazingly quick to master material, and intellectually voracious and omnivorous. On the one hand, perhaps a downside to this was that if he wrote about something he would want to include everything there was to say. That could lead to what some might consider to be a lack of discipline at times.⁶ But, on the other hand, it led to a teaching commitment that was quite exceptional. Courses which he taught either on his own or in collaboration with others included both generalized courses such as introductions to Medieval History, and more specialized courses. Some of these, such as those on witchcraft, heresy, and gender, reflected his engaged left-leaning politico-civic concerns.

Teaching with JOW or participating with him in research seminars could be a daunting experience. He never had a malicious bone in his body, but his prodigious knowledge, rapid mastery of reading, and forthright engagement in dialogue could be interpreted as such...

• 悼念扬尼斯·奥斯特勒·瓦尔迪
• 约翰·普赖尔

约翰·奥斯特勒·沃德 (John Oastler Ward) 1940 年出生于墨尔本，2023 年 4 月 29 日在堪培拉去世。在这八十三年的岁月里，他过着非凡、多面的一生。除了他的学术成就和教学之外，他还因其公民奉献精神、对音乐（尤其是歌剧）、蒸汽机车时代以及书籍和摄影的热爱而闻名。在他和盖尔结婚五十周年午餐会上，他的儿子自豪地宣称，根据最新统计，约翰的图书馆藏书量达到 2200 英尺，可能接近三万册。他的家人到底会如何处理它们，令人难以置信。

约翰在墨尔本大学 (1960 年) 获得一等荣誉，他在玛丽昂 (莫莉) 吉布斯的指导下撰写论文，他深受吉布斯的影响，并与她保持着密切的关系，直到她于 1995 年去世。 1963 年，他前往墨尔本大学他前往加拿大新成立的中世纪研究中心，于 1964 年获得硕士学位，随后在宗座中世纪研究所神父 J. Reginald O'Donnell 和 Nicolaus Häring 的指导下攻读博士学位。1967 年，他被授予悉尼大学中世纪历史讲师职位，并一直担任讲师、高级讲师（自 1973 年起），并最终担任讲师（自 2000 年起）。由于历史系已经有了另一位约翰·沃德，约翰被普遍亲切地称为“JOW”。中世纪的技巧性口才：对西塞罗的《论发明》、《从中世纪早期到十三世纪的德赫伦尼姆》和昆体良的《论制度演说》的研究，特别提到法国北部的学派。¹论文的大部分内容对约翰在欧洲和美洲收集的大量手稿中的文本进行了广泛的描述。1972 年之前，多伦多大学对博士论文的长度没有限制，但 JOW 促使它引入了这一限制。该论文直到 2019 年才发表，²但多年来 JOW 不断对其进行研究和更新，使其广为人知并被频繁引用。

到90年代中期，JOW已经发表了十多篇有关中世纪修辞传统的重要文章和论文，已经是该领域的知名和重要学者。³他参加[End Page 1]会议、讲习班和专题讨论会的性质进一步增强了这一点。他总是最活跃的参与者之一，对所有人都有很多话要说，时常还带着一定程度的礼貌恶作剧。1995 年出版了主要专着《西塞罗修辞学的论文、修辞和评论》，⁴其中纳入了尚未发表的论文中的大量材料，巩固了这一国际地位。从此他成为国际学者界的元老。即使在退休后，他仍然积极参与合作研究，⁵并定期参加中世纪和早期现代中心的活动，并继续参加海外学术活动。

乔拥有非凡的头脑：涉猎广泛，掌握材料的速度快得惊人，而且对知识贪婪且杂食。一方面，也许这样做的一个缺点是，如果他写了一些东西，他会想要包含所有要说的内容。这有时可能会导致一些人认为缺乏纪律。⁶但另一方面，它也带来了非同寻常的教学投入。他自己或与他人合作教授的课程既包括中世纪历史概论等通用课程，也包括更专业的课程。其中一些，例如关于巫术、异端和性别的内容，反映了他对左倾政治公民的关注。

与 JOW 一起教学或与他一起参加研究研讨会可能是一次令人畏惧的经历。他的骨子里从来没有恶意，但他渊博的知识、快速的阅读能力和直率的对话可以被解读为……