Western Languages AD 100-1500
Author | : Philippe Wolff |
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Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Philippe Wolff |
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Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Orion Publishing Group, Limited |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1971-09-01 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | : 9780303762812 |
Author | : Philippe Wolff |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | : 9780303762805 |
Author | : Philippe Wolff |
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Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Philippe Wolff |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
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Author | : Philippe Wolff |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : # Comparative |
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Author | : Tore Janson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199604282 |
Does not discuss the Semitic languages.
Author | : Nicholas Ostler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080271840X |
The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and has defined the way in which we express our thoughts, our faith, and our knowledge of how the world functions. Indeed, the language has proved far more enduring than its empire in Rome, its use echoing on in the law codes of half the world, in the terminologies of modern science, and until forty years ago, in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. It is the unseen substance that makes us members of the Western world. In his erudite and entertaining "biography," Nicholas Ostler shows how and why (against the odds, through conquest from within and without) Latin survived and thrived even as its creators and other languages failed. Originally the dialect of Rome and its surrounds, Latin supplanted its neighbors to become, by conquest and settlement, the language of all Italy, and then of Western Europe and North Africa. Its cultural creep toward Greek in the East led it to copy and then ally with it in an unprecedented, but invincible combination: Greek theory and Roman practice, delivered through Latin, became the foundation of Western civilization. Christianity, a latecomer, then joined the alliance, and became vital to Latin's survival when the empire collapsed. Spoken Latin re-emerged as a host of new languages, from Portuguese and Spanish in the west to Romanian in the east. But a knowledge of Latin lived on as the common code of European thought, and inspired the founders of Europe's New World in the Americas. E pluribus unum. Illuminating the extravaganza of its past, Nicholas Ostler makes clear that, in a thousand echoes, Latin lives on, ad infinitum.
Author | : Joseph H. Lynch |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691196230 |
Between A.D. 200 and 1000, sponsorship at baptism evolved from a simple liturgical act into a mechanism for the creation of enduring relationships regarded as especially holy forms of kinship. Combining anthropological, historical, theological, and literary approaches, Joseph Lynch presents a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development in Western society of this "spiritual" kinship. Because of its solemnity and adaptability, such kinship gradually took its place alongside blood and marital ties as a fundamental part of medieval society, continuing to expand in high and late medieval Europe and to flourish even in modern times, particularly in Latin America. Professor Lynch traces the liturgical practices and theological beliefs undergirding sponsorship and examines its social purposes, including sacralization of personal firendships, creation of client/patron reltionships, extension of marital taboos, provision of protectors for the young, fostering of trust among adults, and dissemination of religious instruction. In the process he offers a rich array of insights into the Church's role in the passage of Western society from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Joseph H. Lynch is Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University. He is author of Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life form 1000 to 1260: A Social, Economic and Legal Study (Ohio State). Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Timothy J. Reiss |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501723197 |
Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.