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The Oxford Latin Syntax
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1280

The Oxford Latin Syntax

In this two-volume work, the first full-scale treatment of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. He takes a non-technical and principally descriptive approach, based on literary and non-literary texts dating from c.250 BC to c.450 AD. The volumes contain a wealth of examples to illustrate the grammatical phenomena under discussion, many of them from the works of Plautus and Cicero, alongside extensive references to other sources of examples such as the Oxford Latin Dictionary and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. While the first volume explored the simple clause, this second volume focuses on the complex sentence and discourse. The first three chapters examine different types of subordinate clause; the following four then explore relative clauses, coordination, comparison, and secondary predicates. Later chapters investigate information structure and extraclausal expressions, word order, and discourse and related features. The Oxford Latin Syntax will be a valuable and up-to-date resource both for professional Latinists and all linguists with an interest in Classics.

The Space That Remains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

The Space That Remains

In The Space That Remains, Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of the major fourth-century poets since Michael Robert's foundational The Jeweled Style. It is the first book to give equal attention to both Christian and Pagan poetry and the first to take seriously the issue of readership. As Pelttari shows, the period marked a turn towards forms of writing that privilege the reader's active involvement in shaping the meaning of the text. In the poetry of Ausonius, Claudian, and Prudentius we can see the increasing importance of distinctions between old and new, ancient and modern, forgotten and remembered. The strange traditionalism and verbalism of the day often concealed a desire for immediacy and presence. We can see these changes most clearly in the expectations placed upon readers. The space that remains is the space that the reader comes to inhabit, as would increasingly become the case in the literature of the Latin Middle Ages.

Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

Reflecting on humanity's shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.

Fictionalizing heterodoxy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Fictionalizing heterodoxy

The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.

Sacred History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Sacred History

The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.

The roots of nationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

The roots of nationalism

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.

A Companion to Ancient Epigram
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 732

A Companion to Ancient Epigram

A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary history unlike any other. This book examines the entire history of the epigram, from its beginnings as a purely epigraphic phenomenon in the Greek world, where it moved from being just a note attached to physical objects to an actual literary form of expression, to its zenith in late 1st century Rome, and further through a period of stagnation up to its last blooming, just before the beginning of the Dark Ages. A Companion t...

Curiosus verborum perscrutator
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Curiosus verborum perscrutator

«COMO CAUSAS Y EFECTOS suelen estar relacionados, el efecto deque la personalidad científica de Gregorio Hinojo pueda serrepresentada ante ustedes de manera adecuada tiene su causa –no estará de más explicitarlo– en sus cualidades personales, ésas que los artículos y los currículos a veces no dejan ver. Gregorio es hombre demuchos amigos y alguien que se goza y al que euforiza (por hablarasí) el contacto con las personas. Resulta un placer para todos que sucontinuada siembra de cordialidad y buen humor a lo largo de muchosaños de docencia universitaria le haya sido devuelta en forma de apoyoa la difusión de aquella parte de su obra quizás menos conocida.» JOSÉ CARLOS FERNÁN...

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 797

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-06-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

Cicero's Political Personae
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Cicero's Political Personae

Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.