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Henry Totting of Oyta
The book presents critical editions and structural analyses of three hitherto neglected sermons of Henry Totting of Oyta: De passione Domini, De assumpcione Marie and De nativitate Iohannis Baptiste. A biographical study on the author, who was active in Paris, Prague, Erfurt and Vienna in the 14th century, completes the volume.
Language and Cultural Change
It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of the formative influence of language on culture than the Renaissance. With the advent of humanism new modes of speaking and writing arose. But not only did classical Latin become the paradigm of clear and elegant writing, it also gave rise to new ideas about language and the teaching of it. Some scholars have argued that the cultural paradigm shift from scholasticism to humanism was causally determined by the rediscovery, study and emulation of the classical language, for learning a new language ope...
