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Eight papers, some of which were presented at the 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in 1994, chart the progress of Old English studies from the earliest work of the mid 16th century through to the heyday of the early 18th century.
Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.
Rapins Hortorum libri IV sind ein antikisierendes Lehrgedicht, das den zeitgenössischen Gartenbau in Frankreich als Höhepunkt der Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet feiert. In den Plantarum libri VI läßt Cowley die Pflanzen als Personen in mythologisch-historischen Erzählzusammenhängen auftreten, ohne darüber pflanzenkundliche Aspekte zu vernachlässigen. Während die Hortorum libri IV vor allem als Nachahmung von Vergils Georgica beschrieben werden können, nehmen die Plantarum libri VI literarische Techniken verschiedener antiker Texte auf und entwickeln sie fort. Die systematisch angelegte Studie erschließt die beiden im selben Jahrzehnt entstandenen, thematisch verwandten lateinischen...
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