‎Language‎

‎Carolyn Twomey, Daniel Anlezark (eds)‎

‎Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 289 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 2 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588889.‎

‎Summary Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the natural landscapes, religious lives, cultural expressions, and physical needs of medieval women and men. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to enlarge our understanding of the overlapping qualities of water in early England (c. 400 - c. 1100). Scholars from the fields of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and art history come together to approach water and its diverse cultural manifestations in the early Middle Ages. Individual essays include investigations of the agency of water and its inhabitants in Old English and Latin literature, divine and demonic waters, littoral landscapes of church archaeology and ritual, visual and aural properties of water, and human passage through water. As a whole, the volume addresses how water in the environment functioned on multiple levels, allowing us to examine the early medieval intersections between the earthly and heavenly, the physical and conceptual, and the material and textual within a single element. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Colour Plates Introduction: Worlds of Water Carolyn Twomey and Daniel Anlezark The Sacred Nature of Rivers, Wells, Springs, and Other Wetlands in Anglo-Saxon England Della Hooke Rivers and Rituals: Baptism in the Early English Landscape Carolyn Twomey Swimming in Anglo-Saxon England Simon Trafford Sensing the Sea: Sounds of Sailors in Anglo-Saxon Literature Rebecca Shores The Sailors, the Sea Monster, and the Saviour: Depicting Jonah and the Ketos in Anglo-Saxon England Elizabeth A. Alexander Pearls before Paradise: Considering the Material Associations of Heavenly Water/s, Precious Stones, and Liminality in the Art of the Medieval West Megan Boulton 'Streams of Wholesome Learning': The Waters of Genesis in Early Anglo-Saxon Exegesis John J. Gallagher Aquas ab Aquis: Aqueous Creation in Andreas Michael Bintley Water, Wisdom and Worldliness in the Anglo-Saxon Prose Lives of Guthlac Helen Appleton Drawing Alfredian Waters: The Old English Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care, Boethian Metre 20, and Solomon and Saturn II Daniel Anlezark Modor is monigra m rra wihta: Watering the World Jill Frederick Index‎

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‎Anne P. Alwis, Martin Hinterberger, Elisabeth Schiffer (eds)‎

‎Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 179 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, Greek. ISBN 9782503593449.‎

‎Summary Throughout the centuries Byzantium's ambitious authors were conscious of the significance of literary registers for the reception of their texts. They deliberately made use of stylistic elements or refrained from using certain features in order to reach their target audience. There are certain groups of texts dating from various periods where these stylistic elements can be tracked precisely by comparison of two or even more versions with their model text. Such examples of rewriting can be found particularly within genres with a broader audience appeal, namely hagiography and historiography. It is in both genres that we encounter metaphrastic processes, in terms of stylistic elaboration and in terms of stylistic simplification. As well as stylistic reshaping, metaphrasis may also encompass the addition or removal of literary and/or thematic aspects. All these processes signify intent as well as authorial interpretation. Frequently, the ideological orientation of a text is refurbished through rewriting. Teasing out these strands for exploration helps to supply a potential wealth of information on the author (if known), cultural (social, religious, historical) context, and creative ability, as well as levels of education and literacy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Anne P. Alwis, Martin Hinterberger & Elisabeth Schiffer, Introduction Christian H gel, Rewriting in Byzantium: Standardization and Metaphrasis Daria Resh, The First Metaphrast: John, Bishop of Sardis Laura Franco, Observations on the Methods of Metaphrastic Rewriting: The Case of the Passio of St James (BHG 773) Elisabeth Schiffer, Rewriting the Life of St John Chrysostom in Tenth-Century Byzantium Martin Hinterberger, Metaphraseis as a Key for the Understanding of Different Levels in Byzantine Vocabulary Staffan Wahlgren, Byzantine Chronicles and Metaphrasis Corinne Jouanno, The Alexander Romance and Metaphrasis. A Case Study: Alexander's Encounter with the Persian Ambassadors Lev Lukhovitskiy, Emotions, Miracles, and the Mechanics of Psychology in Nikephoros Gregoras' Lives of Empress Theophano and Patriarch Anthony II Kauleas‎

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‎Charles D Wright, Thomas Hall, Thomas D. Hill‎

‎New Commentary on the Old English 'Prose Solomon and Saturn' and 'Adrian and Ritheus' Dialogues‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 435 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503603278.‎

‎Summary Who was not born, was buried in his mother's womb, and was baptized after death? Who first spoke with a dog? Why don't stones bear fruit? Who first said the word 'God'? Why is the sea salty? Who built the first monastery? Who was the first doctor? How many species of fish are there? What is the heaviest thing to bear on earth? What creatures are sometimes male and sometimes female? The Old English dialogues The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, critically edited in 1982 by J. E. Cross and Thomas D. Hill, provide the answers to a trove of curious medieval 'wisdom questions' such as these, drawing on a remarkable range of biblical, apocryphal, patristic, and encyclopaedic lore. This volume (which reprints the texts and translations of the two dialogues from Cross and Hill's edition) both updates and massively supplements the commentary by Cross and Hill, contributing extensive new sources and analogues (many from unpublished medieval Latin question-and-answer texts) and comprehensively reviews the secondary scholarship on the ancient and medieval texts and traditions that inform these Old English sapiential dialogues. It also provides an extended survey of the late antique and early medieval genres of 'curiosity' and 'wisdom' dialogues and florilegia, including their dissemination and influence as well as their social and educational functions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Sourcing Wisdom: Commentary as Dialogue Organizing Wisdom: The Compilatory Structure of the Prose Solomon and Saturn (SS) and Adrian and Ritheus (AR) Transmitting Wisdom: Encyclopaedic Notes, Dialogues, and Florilegia Disputing Wisdom: Medieval Lore Masters and Modern Scholars List of Texts I. Latin Curiosity Dialogues II. Latin Wisdom Dialogues III. Latin Commonplace Dialogues ad Florilegia IV. Latin Hybrid Dialogues and Florilegia V. Vernacular Dialogues VI. Greek Dialogues VII. Slavonic Dialogues VIII. Encyclopaedic Notes Commentary I. The Prose Solomon and Saturn including Items Shared with Adrian and Ritheus II. Items Unique to Adrian and Ritheus Works Cited Indices I. Biblical and Apocryphal Citations II. Manuscripts III. Primary Sources IV. Subjects‎

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‎A ron Vanspauwen‎

‎In Defence of Faith, Against the Manichaeans. Critical Edition and Historical, Literary and Theological Study of the Treatise Aduersus Manichaeos, Attributed to Evodius of Uzalis‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 520 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503589954.‎

‎Summary The subject of this publication is the treatise Aduersus Manichaeos, attributed to Evodius of Uzalis. Evodius was a friend and contemporary of Augustine of Hippo. The treatise Aduersus Manichaeos is an important source on the North African Catholic church and its polemics against the Manichaeans. Although the treatise is strongly influenced by the anti-Manichaean writings of Augustine of Hippo, it also offers much original and likely authentic information on the Manichaean movement. Thus far, however, no systematic study had been conducted on this anti-Manichaean treatise attributed to Evodius. As a result, some of its historical circumstances have been shrouded in mystery. The present volume reconstructs the circumstances in which Aduersus Manichaeos was written, and studies the treatise in relation to its fifth-century North African context. The study offers a literary, historical and theological analysis of Aduersus Manichaeos. The publication also complements the study of Aduersus Manichaeos with a new critical edition of the original Latin text, with a facing English translation.‎

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‎Alcuinus, Louis Holtz (ed), Anne Grondeux (ed)‎

‎Excerptiones super Priscianum‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, ci + 262 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:5 col., Language: Latin. ISBN 9782503588759.‎

‎Summary Conserv es dans quatre manuscrits, dont un palimpseste, du IXe si cle, les Excerptiones super Priscianum d'Alcuin constituent un t moin exceptionnel de la lecture de Priscien par le ma tre des ma tres . Cette mosa que d'extraits nous montre comment Alcuin r ordonne la lecture de Priscien dans la perspective r solument innovante de la syntaxe, rompant avec les utilisations ponctuelles qui pouvaient tre auparavant faites de l'Ars Prisciani, par exemple pour commenter Donat ou clairer tel point technique. Le caract re magistral de cette oeuvre tient au fait qu'Alcuin se r v le le seul avoir saisi que les seize premiers livres constituaient une prop deutique aux deux derniers et la ma trise qui lui permet de relier constamment les fils invisibles qui unissent les deux parties de l'ouvrage. L' dition critique est pr c d e d'une introduction et compl t e par une s rie d'annexes centr es sur la m thodologie d'Alcuin.‎

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‎Irene Villarroel Fern ndez‎

‎Flores philosophorum et poetarum: tras la huella del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais‎

‎, Brepols - Fidem, 2020 Paperback, xi + 754 pages, Size:165 x 240 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 6 tables b/w., Languages: Spanish, Latin. ISBN 9782503590677.‎

‎Summary La transmisi n manuscrita de una obra depara, en ocasiones, sorpresas y sucesos inesperados. Este es el caso de los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais, dedicados a la ethica monastica, que muy pronto se independizaron de la obra completa, creando una tradici n propia, de la que incluso surgi , tras diversas transformaciones, una obra nueva, los Flores philosophorum et poetarum. En el presente volumen, se aborda, en primer lugar, el estudio de los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale, sus caracter sticas y su transmisi n manuscrita, y, posteriormente, las modificaciones sufridas por estos dos libros, tanto en su estructura como en su contenido, que dan origen a los Flores philosophorum et poetarum y que implican una nueva fase en su transmisi n con una evoluci n de enciclopedia a florilegio. Finalmente se presentan los testimonios manuscritos del florilegio y su filiaci n con la obra enciclop dica de Vicente de Beauvais. La edici n cr tica de los Flores philosophorum et poetarum, que ocupa la segunda parte del libro, tiene en cuenta la doble condici n de esta obra, original y a la vez subordinada a los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais, por lo que se presenta con tres aparatos (de fuentes, cr tico e intertextual), con la intenci n de reflejar su transici n entre la enciclopedia y el florilegio. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introducci n Estudio Cap tulo I. Los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale: la fuente de los Flores philosophorum et poetarum Vicente de Beauvais y su producci n literaria El Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais Los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais Cap tulo II. Los Flores philosophorum et poetarum: de enciclopedia a florilegio. De enciclopedia a florilegio Modificaciones en la estructura de la obra Modificaciones en el contenido de la obra Testimonios manuscritos Filicaci n de los testimonios Edici n Criterios de edici n - Conspectus siglorum - Conspectus abbreviationum communium - Conspectus fontium et abbreviationum Tabula capitulorum Edici n de los Flores philosophorum et poetarum Bibliograf a ndices‎

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‎Ben Guy, Georgia Henley, Owain Wyn Jones, Rebecca Thomas (eds)‎

‎Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March. New Contexts, Studies, and Texts‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xvi + 455 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 20 tables b/w., Languages: English, Middle English, Latin. ISBN 9782503583495.‎

‎Summary The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogyon families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales. Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J. E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Chronicling and its Contexts in Medieval Wales - HUW PRYCE Historical Writing in Europe, c. 1100-1300 - BJ RN WEILER Historical Scholars and Dishonest Charlatans: Studying the Chronicles of Medieval Wales - BEN GUY Meet the Ancestors? Evidence for Antecedent Texts in the Late Thirteenth-Century Welsh Latin Chronicles - HENRY GOUGH-COOPER Bonedd y Saint, Brenhinedd y Saesson, and Historical Scholarship at Valle Crucis Abbey - BARRY J. LEWIS The Continuation of Brut y Tywysogyon in NLW, Peniarth MS 20 Re-visited - DAVID STEPHENSON O Oes Gwrtheyrn: A Medieval Welsh Chronicle - OWAIN WYN JONES The Cardiff Chronicle in London, British Library, MS Royal 6 B XI - GEORGIA HENLEY The Chronicle of Gregory of Caerwent - JOSHUA BYRON SMITH A Forgotten Welsh Chronology in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MSS 5267B, Peniarth 50, and the Red Book of Hergest - REBECCA TRY * Brut Ieuan Brechfa: A Welsh Poet Writes the Early Middle Ages - BEN GUY Appendix: List of the Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March‎

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‎Christophe Bertiau, Dirk Sacr (eds)‎

‎latin et la litt rature n o-latine au XIXe si cle. Pratiques et repr sentations‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, v + 299 pages, Size:160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, English, Italian. ISBN 9789492771322.‎

‎Summary Le XIXe si cle est connu comme l' poque o l'essor des nationalismes et des langues nationales en Europe a d finitivement rel gu le latin aux marges du monde social. Or, si le latin conna t alors un ind niable d clin, il n'en demeure pas moins tout un temps une langue importante pour les nations modernes. Le pr sent volume tudie les manifestations d'une tradition linguistique pluris culaire qui ne s'est pas teinte l'aube de la modernit . Fruit d'une collaboration internationale, il rassemble des contributions portant sur diff rents pays d'Europe occidentale et centrale. Les auteurs retracent l'histoire du latin au XIXe si cle, s'interrogent aussi bien sur les raisons de son succ s que sur celles de son d clin et pr tent une attention particuli re aux aspects th matiques et stylistiques des textes. La litt rature n o-latine, qui n'est pas indiff rente au surgissement des romantismes europ ens, est pass e la loupe. L'ouvrage met galement en vidence l'inflexion que l'inspiration latine antique a pu donner une oeuvre po tique en langue moderne. TABLE OF CONTENTS Christophe Bertiau, "Le latin, une mati re ?bourgeoise?? Sur le d clin du latin dans l'enseignement l' poque contemporaine" The article refutes the received idea of Latin being a "bourgeois" school subject. It states on the contrary that the political and economic rise of the bourgeoisie accounts for the decline of Latin in secondary education during the last two centuries. Although Latin kept its dominant position in the curriculums throughout the nineteenth century, its supremacy was increasingly challenged by certain exponents of the bourgeoisie, who demanded school learning to be more markedly connected to the professional world. Jan Spoelder, "The decline of Latin as the academic language at Dutch universities and its consequences for education in Latin" In the eighteenth century, Latin lost its status as the universal scholarly language in countries like France, Germany and Britain. However, the Royal Decree of 1815 provided that Latin remained the exclusive academic language in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. More and more tension arose between maintaining classical educational ideals and the with to use the vernacular. Only when the Act on Higher Education was passed in 1876, this meant in practice the end of the mandatory use of Latin at Dutch universities. This new situation also ended the raison d' tre of the Latin school, the kind of education that had prepared for university entrance in the towns of the Dutch Republic and the later Kingdom. This type of school was reorganised to meet the altered requirements of the modern time under the name of Gymnasium. This school, with compulsory Greek and Latin, is still flourishing magnificently at the moment. Patrizia Paradisi, "Il latino nelle cerimonie ufficiali del Regno d'Italia, dall'Universit di Bologna al Campidoglio a Roma (Gandino, Albini e Pascoli)" Patrizia Paradisi stresses the significance Latin displayed for the official ceremonies of the Kingdom of Italy at the time of Giovanni Battista Gandino, Giuseppe Albini and Giovanni Pascoli. It thus appears how Latin was used to compose speeches, letters, an inscription for a medal, a hymn or a journal on the occasion of various ceremonies. Giacomo Dalla Piet , "L'evoluzione stilistica del latino all'interno della curia romana nel secolo XIX" Giacomo Dalla Piet sketches how the Latin style of encyclical letters developed during the nineteenth century. He interprets the adoption of a high style, which was to become increasingly Ciceronian, under the pontificate of Leo XIII as testament to the latter's universalist project and new way of conceiving papacy. ?ime Demo, "Stubborn persistence at the outskirts of the West: Latin in nineteenth-century Croatia" The article gives an insight into the status of Latin in nineteenth-century Croatia. Latin retained there until the mid-century a decided importance as a means of international communication, as a political instrument, as a medium of instruction or as a literary language. However, Croatian tended towards more and more superseding Latin in its uses. As a result, Latin was hardly ever used outside Church and education in the second half of the century. Neven Jovanovi?, "Two gentlemen-translators from nineteenth-century Dubrovnik" The author analyses the Latin translations of Antonio Sivrich and Blasius Ghetaldi, two poets from Dubrovnik. He compares how both translators worked and reflects upon the reasons why they rendered into Latin Italian sonnets and anacreontic poems (Sivrich) or Ivan Gunduli?'s Croatian epos Osman (Ghetaldi). Svorad Zavarsk , "?Et meus vere paradisus audit: mandra, poesis?: The poetry of Antonius Faber" Svorad Zavarsk presents the work of the neo-Latin poet from Bratislava Antonius Faber. He affirms that the main interest of A.?Faber's little classical poetry is its originality. This poetry can be seen as a compromise between traditional neo-Latin poetry and the romantic revival. It epitomises quite good the linguistic situation of Hungary at that time, where the national language was more and more often preferred to Latin. Florian Schaffenrath, "Antonio Mazzetti's neo-Latin epic poem on Emperor Ferdinand I (1838)" Florian Schaffenrath tackles a panegyric (gratulatio) addressed by Antonio Mazzetti to Emperor Ferdinand?I and examines its reception. He highlights the enthusiasm this poem motivated by current political affairs elicited, even though Latin verses no longer were in fashion. Antonino Zumbo, "Scrivere una novella romantica in versi latini: il Polymetron di Giovanni Andrea Vinacci" The article deals with the Polymetron, a romantic short story written in Latin verses by Andrea Vinacci. The story displays a Byronian inspiration and is located in the nineteenth-century Italian independence wars. Both these characteristics suggest that far from a mere formal dialogue with the Ancients has neo-Latin literature always attempted to stay in tune with its time. Romain Jalabert, "Des vers latins romantiques, en France" Romain Jalabert shows that a whole part of nineteenth-century French neo-Latin poetry was opened up to Romanticism. Original Latin poems inspired by Romanticism and Latin translations of poems in modern languages were no oddities. Schools played a leading role in this new tendency. Alphonse de Lamartine enjoyed great success as a source of inspiration for Latin poets. Dirk Sacr , "Colonel William Siddons Young (1832-1901) as a Latin poet" Dirk Sacr presents the life and work of the atypical British neo-Latin poet Colonel William Siddons Young (1832-1901). Young was an army officer in the Bengal civil service. Although some Latinists considered him as the greatest living Latin poet, his Latin verses display imperfections and he rapidly fell into oblivion after his death. But because of his atypical profile, he could serve the cause of Latin as a universal language. Through the figure of Young, this article provides us with an overview of the evolution of living Latin in the late nineteenth century. Marie-France David-de Palacio, "Un epigrammaton liber fin-de-sie cle: les ?latineries? de Jean Richepin" This contribution demonstrates on the basis of Jean Richepin's "Latineries" how a writer can breath new life into his own poetic language by imitating ancient authors. Whereas the style models on the epigrams of Roman Antiquity, and more specifically of Martial, the content exhibits a "Gallic" character.‎

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‎Aline Pons‎

‎Parole di montagna. Il lessico geografico nelle Alpi Cozie‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xvi + 323 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:50 tables b/w., 18 maps b/w, 2 allegato, Languages: Italian, Occitan. ISBN 9782503585222.‎

‎Summary Le "parole di montagna" sono state studiate soprattutto perch le loro radici etimologiche risalgono spesso a epoche precedenti alla romanizzazione delle Alpi: in questo lungo periodo, il lessico geografico rimasto vivo nelle parlate occitane, subendo delle modifiche anche importanti non solo dal punto di vista fonetico, ma anche dal punto di vista del significato. Questo volume da un lato rappresenta in sincronia la variazione diatopica del significato delle "parole di montagna", attraverso un apparato di carte semasiologiche opportunamente commentate, dall'altro restituisce la speciale "visione del mondo" soggiacente alla strutturazione del lessico geografico in un determinato numero di localit , attraverso una trattazione articolata per campi semantici e un Lessico specifico. La ricerca da cui nasce questo libro ha coinvolto dieci localit di parlata occitana distribuite sui due versanti della Alpi Cozie, a pi di mille metri di quota, ed stata svolta dall'autrice per la redazione della sua tesi di dottorato (che ha vinto il premio Peter T. Ricketts promosso dall'AIEO). TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Uno studio sulla semasiologia delle "parole di montagna" 1.1. Dagli stimoli personali alle motivazioni scientifiche 1.2. Struttura del volume 2. Le Alpi Cozie 2.1. Cenni di storia dell'area 2.2. Da Salbertrand ad Argentera 2.3. L'area linguistica 2.3.1. Piano sociolinguistico 2.3.1. Piano linguistico 3. La ricerca 3.1. La ricerca semasiologica nella geografia linguistica 3.1.1. Il primo studio sulle aree semantiche 3.1.2. Le carte semasiologiche negli atlanti linguistici della Rom nia 3.1.2.1. Atlas Linguistique et ethnographique de la Gascogne 3.1.2.2. Noul Atlas Lingvuistic rom n pe regiuni - Oltenia 3.1.2.3. Atlas linguistique et ethnographique de l'Alsace 3.1.2.4. Atlas Linguistique et ethnographique de Provence 3.1.2.5. Atlas Ling stico Galego 3.1.2.6. Atles Ling stic del domini catal 3.1.3. Esperienze italiane di ricerca semasiologica 3.1.3.1. Atlante Lessicale Toscano 3.1.3.2. Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia 3.1.3.3. Atlante Linguistico ed Etnografico del Piemonte Occidentale 3.1.4. Scelte di metodo 3.2. L'elemento umano 3.2.1. Raccoglitrice 3.2.2. Informatrici e informatori 3.3. L'indagine 3.3.1. Individuazione dei tipi lessicali 3.3.2. Primo ciclo di interviste 3.3.3. Costruzione del questionario II 3.3.4. Secondo ciclo di interviste 3.3.5. Organizzazione dei materiali nel Lessico 3.3.6. Analisi semantica dei lessemi 3.3.7. La grafia 4. Analisi semantica del lessico geografico 4.1. L'analisi 4.1.1. Che cosa si intende per campo semantico 4.1.2. Che cosa si intende per tratto distintivo 4.1.3. Che cosa si intende per tassonomia 4.1.4. Polisemia e variazione diatopica del significato 4.1.5. Fonti lessicografiche 4.2. La pedologia 4.2.1. Le pietre 4.2.2. Le pietraie 4.2.3. Le frane 4.2.4. La roccia compatta 4.2.5. Il fango 4.3. Morfologia del rilievo 4.3.1. I ripari 4.3.2. Le spaccature 4.3.3. Le depressioni del terreno 4.3.4. Il piano 4.3.5. Il pendio 4.3.6. Il solco vallivo 4.3.7. Il rilievo isolato 4.3.8. Le creste 4.3.9. Tracce e sentieri 4.4. Le acque 4.4.1. Le acque correnti 4.4.2. Le acque ferme 5. Considerazioni conclusive 5.1. Considerazioni di metodo 5.2. Considerazioni sulla variazione semantica in diatopia 5.3. Considerazioni sull'analisi semantica Allegati Questionario I Questionario II Appendice Impostazione del lessico La struttura delle voci Lemma Significato Materiale informativo Forme correlate Toponimi Geosinonimi Lessico Indice dei traducenti Bibliografia Atlanti linguistici Dizionari e grammatiche Studi citati‎

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‎Alessandro Garcea, Michela Rosellini, Luigi Silvano (eds)‎

‎Latin in Byzantium I. Late Antiquity and Beyond‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 564 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, Languages: English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503584928.‎

‎Summary 'Latin in Byzantium' explores the linguistic competence, cultural identity, and transmission of Latin texts in the 'noua Roma' between the fourth and the ninth centuries. Drawing together texts from a number of fields (e.g., law, grammar, religion, and tactics) and across a range of different forms (e.g., palaeographic, epigraphic, and papyrological), this important project provides scholars for the first time with an in-depth knowledge of both the Latin-speaking milieux in Byzantium, and of the contexts in which Latin was used. Crucially, the ancient sources studied in this volume are also analysed in their broader political and sociological context, providing rich material for study across different disciplines and making this volume an important resource for closing the gaps between literary and non-literary texts, history, and philology. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Rhomaika: Una introduzione - Guglielmo Cavallo General Framework Desuetudine longa? subeunt verba latina : The Transition From Late Antique to Medieval Byzantium and the Fall of Latin - Luigi Silvano Latin in Byzantium: Different Forms of Linguistic Contact - Alessandro Garcea Latin in the Empire: Texts and People La pratique du latin dans l' gypte de l'Antiquit tardive - Jean-Luc Fournet The Use of Latin in the Context of Multilingual Monastic Communities in the East - Claudia Rapp Writing Latin in Late Antique Constantinople - Gabriel Nocchi Macedo The Laws of the Language and the Language of the Laws La lingua degli ??????. Conoscenza e uso del latino nell'Oriente greco di iv secolo attraverso l'opera di Libanio - Andrea Pellizzari Asymmetric Exchange: Latin Speakers Learning Greek and Greek Speakers Learning Latin in Late Antiquity. On the Evidence of Grammars and Bilingual Texts - Juan Signes Codo er L'insegnamento di Prisciano - Michela Rosellini - Elena Spangenberg Yanes Sur un silence de Jean le Lydien - Marc Baratin Justinianus Latinograecus. Language and Law during the Reign of Justinian - Thomas Ernst van Bochove Latin as a Medium at the Service of the Power Le rituel des acclamations : de Rome "Byzance" - Fr d rique Biville L'univers grec et latin d'un po te africain : Corippe et Byzance - Vincent Zarini Latin Inscriptions in (Early) Byzantium - Andreas Rhoby Latin Texts as Sources La traduction du latin en grec Byzance : un aper u g n ral - Bruno Rochette Modelli latini per poemi greci? Sulla possibile influenza di autori latini sulla poesia epica tardoantica - Gianfranco Agosti Latin and the Chronicon Paschale - Christian Gastgeber Sulla conoscenza del latino nell'Oriente romano nel periodo tra Maurizio ed Eraclio (582-641): il caso degli storici-funzionari e di Giovanni di Antiochia - Umberto Roberto Latinismi e cultura letteraria nei frammenti di Pietro Patrizio: per un'indagine sul De cerimoniis e sugli Excerpta Historica Constantiniana - Laura Mecella Latin Literature in Johannes Malalas's Chronicle - Olivier Gengler Appunti per un lessico grecolatino tardoantico: la traduzione latina di Gregorio di Nazianzo trasmessa dal Laur. S. Marco 584 - Alessandro CaponeLatin Vocabulary Transmitted across Space and Time On the Use of Latin Legal Terminology in the Byzantine Legal Treatise De actionibus - Jos -Domingo Rodr guez Mart n Per lo studio dei rapporti tra istituzioni di giustiniano e libri basilici - Massimo Miglietta Latinit cach e Constantinople (VIe - moiti XIIIe si cles) - Peter Schreiner I latinismi nella lingua greca moderna - Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis Index of Names Index of Places‎

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‎Tamara Atkin, Laura Estill (eds)‎

‎Early British Drama in Manuscript‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvi + 376 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:45 b/w, 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503575469.‎

‎Summary This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied manuscript culture. Focusing on the production, performance, and reception of dramatic documents made in Britain between 1400 and 1700, the essays in this book shed new light on the role of dramatic manuscripts in a range of different social and literary spheres. From extant manuscripts of England's mystery cycles to miscellanies kept by seventeenth-century readers, the documents discussed in this volume reflect a culture of producing and using drama in ways that have been overlooked by the recent critical focus on drama and print by theatre historians and literary critics. By showing the various continuities, exchanges, lendings, and borrowings between medieval and early modern scribal practices, as well as between manuscript and print practices, this volume interrogates accepted critical narratives about the way that drama has been historicized. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction - TAMARA ATKIN AND LAURA ESTILL Production The Brome Abraham and Isaac and Impersonal Compilation - JOE STADOLNIK The Coventry Playbooks - PAMELA M. KING The Towneley Plays: Huntington Library MS HM 1 - ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON Un-dating the Chester Plays: A?Reassessment of Lawrence Clopper's 'History and Development' and MS?Peniarth 399 - MATTHEW SERGI Noting Baiazet, the Raging Turk - MARY POLITO AND KIRSTEN INGLIS John of Bordeaux: Performance and the Revision of Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts - JAMES PURKIS James Compton and Cosmo Manuche and Dramatic Manuscripts in the Interregnum - WILLIAM PROCTOR WILLIAMS Performance The Play of Wit and Science: Evidence for the Performance of a Choir School Manuscript - LOUISE RAYMENT Sixteenth-Century Courtly Mumming and Masking: Alexander Montgomerie's The Navigatioun - SARAH CARPENTER Speech and Silence in an Actor's Part - JAKUB BOGUSZAK 'In witnes here of I set to my hand': Early Modern Actors' Offstage Textual Rituals - KARA J. NORTHWAY Comedy, Clowning, and the Caroline King's Men: Manuscript Plays and Performance - LUCY MUNRO Unfolding Action: Locked Letters as Props in the Early Modern Theatre - DANIEL STARZA SMITH AND JANA DAMBROGIO Reception Remediating Sixteenth-Century Drama: Gismond of Salerne in Script and Print - TAMARA ATKIN The Early Manuscript Reception of Shakespeare: The Formation of Shakespearean Literary Taste - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAYER Comedies and Tragedies 'read of me' and 'not yet learned': Dramatic Extracting in Bodleian Library MS?Rawlinson D 952 - BEATRICE MONTEDORO Seeing is Believing: External vs. Internal Evidence in the Controversy over the Ireland Forgeries - ANTONIA FORSTER The Macro Plays in Georgian England - GAIL MCMURRAY GIBSON Unseen things seen': Digital Editing and Early Modern Manuscript Plays - MATTEO PANGALLO Mongrel Forms: Print-Manuscript Hybridity and Digital Methods in Annotated Plays - REBECCA MUNSON Index‎

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‎Boethius(auth), Brian Donaghey, Noel Harold Kaylor, Philip Edward Phillips, Paul E. Szarmach (eds)‎

‎Remaking Boethius. The English Language Translation Tradition of 'The Consolation of Philosophy'‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xxviii + 496 pages, 156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503584676.‎

‎Summary This volume is a reference work, organized chronologically in its sections, with a separate entry for each translator's work. The sections are defined by the type of translations they comprise, whether complete, partial, meters only, etc. The plan of the book is encyclopedic in nature: some biographical material is provided for each translator; the translations are described briefly, as are their linguistic peculiarities, their implied audiences, their links with other translations, and their general reception. Sample passages from the translations are provided, and where possible these are two of the most well-known moments in the Consolatio: the appearance of Lady Philosophy, narrated by the Prisoner, and the cosmological hymn to the Deus of the work, sung by Lady Philosophy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: The Foundation of the Tradition: The Latin De consolation philosophiae Part I: Complete Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae Part II: Partial or Abridged Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae Part III: Translations into English of the Meters or Selected Meters of De consolation philosophiae Part IV: Spurious, Mislabeled, or Lost Translations of De consolation philosophiae Part V: Modern English Translations of Old English Prose and Verse Translations of De consolation philosophiae Part VI: An Early Adaptation of Chaucer's Translations into English of De consolation philosophiae with Commentary Interspersed Part VII: Some Minor Uses of Translations or Adaptations of Passages from De consolation philosophiae Part VIII: Two Early Discussions on De consolation philosophiae translation Epilogue: Some Relevant Definitions: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Notes on the Editors‎

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‎Matthias Egeler (ed)‎

‎Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, viii + 263 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 3 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503580401.‎

‎Summary This volume explores the intersection of landscape and myth in the context of north-western Atlantic Europe. From the landscapes of literature to the landscape as a lived environment, and from myths about supernatural beings to tales about the mythical roots of kingship, the contributions gathered here each develop their own take on the meanings behind 'landscape' and 'myth', and thus provide a broad cross-section of how these widely discussed concepts might be understood. Arising from papers delivered at the conference Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe, held in Munich in April 2016, the volume draws together a wide selection of material ranging from texts and toponyms to maps and archaeological data, and it uses this diversity in method and material to explore the meaning of these terms in medieval Ireland, Wales, and Iceland. In doing so, it provides a broadly inclusive and yet carefully focused discussion of the inescapable and productive intertwining of landscape and myth. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: 'Landscape', 'Myth', and the North-Western European Perspective - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and Real-World Landscapes Spaces, Places, and Liminality: Marking Out and Meeting the Dead and the Supernatural in Old Nordic Landscapes - TERRY GUNNELL Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscape in the Sagas of Icelanders - REINHARD HENNIG Landscape Meditations on Death: The Place-Lore of the Hvanndalur Valley in Northern Iceland - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and the Creation of Landscape in Early Medieval Ireland - GREGORY TONER Codal and riu: Feeding the Land of Ireland - GRIGORY BONDARENKO with NINA ZHIVLOVA) Finn's Wilderness and Boundary Landforms in Medieval Ireland -ELIZABETH FITZPATRICK 'Here, Finn? Take This and Give him a Lick of it': Two Place-Lore Stories about Fi(o)nn Mac Cum(h)aill in Medieval Irish Literature and Modern Oral Tradition - TIZIANA SOVERINO The M lusine Legend Type and the Landscape in Insular and Continental Tradition - GREGORY R. DARWIN Myth and the Landscapes of Literature King Sverrir's Mythic Landscapes - NICOLAS MEYLAN Mythologizing the Conceptual Landscape: Religion and History in Imago mundi, Image du monde, and Delw y byd - NATALIA PETROVSKAIA The Road Less Travelled: C Chulainn's Journey to Matrimony and the Dindshenchas of Tochmarc Emire - MARIE-LUISE THEUERKAUF 'If we settled in the forest?': Tracing the Function of Wooded Spaces from Old Irish Literature to Contemporary Poetry - EDYTA LEHMANN‎

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‎Matti Peikola, Jukka Tyrkk , Mari-Liisa Varila (eds)‎

‎Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, xv + 355 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:37 b/w, 12 col., 16 tables b/w., Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503600451.‎

‎Summary Graphic devices such as tables and diagrams and other visual strategies of organising text and information are an essential part of communication. The use of these devices and strategies in books and documents developed throughout the medieval and early modern periods, as knowledge was translated and circulated in European vernaculars. Yet the use of graphic practices and multimodal literacies associated with them have mostly been examined in the context of Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew, and early vernacular writing remains an under-researched area. This volume brings together contributors from English historical linguistics and book studies to highlight multimodal graphic practices and literacies in texts across a range of genres and text types from the late medieval period until the eighteenth century. Contributions in the volume investigate both handwritten and printed materials, from books in the domains of medicine, religion, history, and grammar, to administrative records and letter writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Graphic Practices in Early English Texts MATTI PEIKOLA, JUKKA TYRKK , and MARI-LIISA VARILA Part I Conventionalising Strategies of Verbal and Visual information COLETTE MOORE The Pragmatics of Late Medieval English Accounts: A Case Study KJETIL V. THENGS Plague on the Page: Mise-en-page and Visual Highlighting in the John of Burgundy Plague Tract from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century ALPO HONKAPOHJA The Pragmatics of Punctuation in Early English Medical Recipe Books JAVIER CALLE-MART N and JES S ROMERO-BARRANCO Visual Pragmatics and Late Modern English Letters INGRID TIEKEN-BOON VAN OSTADE Part II The A to Z of Middle English Indexing? The Tables of John Trevisa's Polychronicon WENDY SCASE A Visual and Linguistic Interpretation of the Pater Noster Table of the Vernon Manuscript OLGA TIMOFEEVA Visual Chronologies in Early Modern English Historiography AINO LIIRA, MATTI PEIKOLA, and MARJO KAARTINEN Visual Representation of Information in Medical Texts, 1500-1700 MARI-LIISA VARILA, CARLA SUHR, and JUKKA TYRKK Verbal and Visual Instruction in Early Dance Manuals: The Curious Case of John Playford's Tables HANNA SALMI Graphic Elements in Early Printed Grammar Books JANNE SKAFFARI and JUKKA TYRKK Afterword JEREMY J. SMITH Bibliography Index Notes on Contributors‎

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‎Müller (Max)‎

‎La science du langage, cours professé à l'institution royale de la Grande-Bretagne.‎

‎1864 Traduit de l'Anglais par Georges Harris et Georges Perrot. Auguste Durand, Paris, 1864. In-8 demi chagrin rouge, dos à petits nerfs orné de fleurons et filets à froid, XXX, 459 pages. Bel exemplaire.‎

‎La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 19h00. Commandes par courriel ou téléphone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigné.‎

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‎Parain (Brice)‎

‎Recherches sur la nature et les fonctions du langage.‎

‎1966 Gallimard, Bibliothèque des idées, Paris, 1966. Un volume in-8 broché, couverture blanche, bandeau conservé, 187 pages. Traces de scotch sur les gardes, bon état.‎

‎La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 19h00. Commandes par courriel ou téléphone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigné.‎

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‎BARRY (Sir Gerald), BRONOWSKI (Dr J.), FISHER (James) et HUXLEY (Sir Julian, sous la direction)‎

‎L'Homme et son Langage‎

‎Tallandier "Les chemins de l'humanité" 1968, in-4 (27 x 20 cm) relié toile noire de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, 365 p. (accrocs à la jaquette, petite usure sans gravité au second plat de la reliure, sinon très bon état) Illustrations NB et couleurs à toutes les pages, index. Première grande étude d'ensemble sur la communication sous toutes ses formes, ce qui inclut le livre et son histoire ainsi que les autres médias.‎

Bookseller reference : 41048

‎COMMUNICATION ET LANGAGE.‎

‎COMMUNICATION ET LANGAGE‎

‎N° 60. 2° trimestre N° 60. 2° trimestre 1984. In-8 broché de 125 pages.‎

‎Revue trimestrielle de communication et pédagogie des Editions de RETZ publiée avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres consacrée à : LINGUISTIQUE - GRAPHISME - MASS MEDIA - FORMATION - SOCIOLOGIE - PUBLICITE. Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.‎

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‎COMMUNICATION ET LANGAGE.‎

‎COMMUNICATION ET LANGAGE‎

‎N° 62. 4° trimestre N° 62. 4° trimestre 1984. In-8 broché de 125 pages.‎

‎Revue trimestrielle de communication et pédagogie des Editions de RETZ publiée avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres consacrée à : LINGUISTIQUE - GRAPHISME - MASS MEDIA - FORMATION - SOCIOLOGIE - PUBLICITE. Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.‎

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‎PHREATIQUE. LANGAGE ET CREATION.‎

‎PHREATIQUE. REVUE TRIMESTRIELLE. N° 51 HIVER 1989. : CREATIVE ALGERIE.‎

‎Phréatique 1989, In-8 Phréatique 1989, In-8 broché, couverture illustrée. 144 pages. Illustrations.‎

‎Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo.‎

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‎LOUVET (Capitaine)‎

‎Cours élémentaire de la Langue Chinoise‎

‎Paris, Presa Esperantista Societo, 1908. 1 volume in-8, XIX - 187 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir brun, couvertures conservées mais défraîchies, très bon état d'ensemble.‎

‎L'auteur de cet ouvrage précise dans la Préface: "J'ai composé ce petit "Vocabulaire de poche" à la demande d'un grand nombre de Français et d'étrangers parlant la langue Française, résidant dans le Nord de la Chine. Ce n'est pas un recueil de dialogues, ni un formulaire de conversation courante; c'est un choix de mots, d'expressions et de phrases simples, d'usage journalier; c'est un petit "vade-mecum" pratique, destiné aux Français qui n'ont pas le temps ou la volonté d'étudier la langue chinoise. Capitaine Louvet de l'Infanterie Coloniale‎

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‎LAMASSE (H.) - [HONG KONG IMPRINT] [LANGUE CHINOISE]‎

‎Sin Kouo Wen ou Nouveau Manuel de Langue Ecrite Chinoise - Appendices‎

‎Hong-Kong, Imprimerie de la Société des Missions Etrangères, 1922 (2e édition). 1 volume in-8, 251 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir brun, couvertures conservées, défraîchies, bon état.‎

‎Cet ouvrage constitue un complément au manuel Sin Kouo Wen et se compose de plusieurs Appendices: Index des Caractères - Table analytique des principales notes et des formules ou caractères les plus usités - Répertoire phraséologique Français-Chinois.‎

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‎WERSHOVEN (Dr. F.J.) - [SIAM] [SIAMESE LANGUAGE]‎

‎Lehr und Lesebuch der Siamesischen Sprache und Deutsch-Siamimesisches Worterbuch zum Selbststudium mit Phonetischer Ausprachebezeichnung Ubungsaufen und Lesebuch‎

‎Wien. Pest. Leipzig, A. Hartleben's Verlag, no date (1892). 1 volume in-12, red hard covers,182 pp., a very good copy.‎

Bookseller reference : 7402

‎Le langage. Bibliothèque de LA PLEIADE. ENCYCLOPEDIE. Publié sous la direction de Raymond Queneau.‎

‎Paris, Gallimard, 1973. Volume in-12, 1525 pp., habillé de la célèbre reliure de l'éditeur : peau souple, dos lisse orné d'un semis d'étoiles dorées. Exemplaire avec le rhodoïd et la jaquette mais sans l'étui de carton gris. Très frais. .‎

‎EPUISE‎

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‎MARCHAL (R.P.)‎

‎Le bouquet de la jeune fille.‎

‎Paris, Perisse, 1882. In-16, (2) ff., 416 pp., demi chagrin brun.‎

‎Le myosotis (aimez-moi), le lis (candeur), la violette (modestie), la rose (amour), le fraisier (bonté parfaite), le jasmin (amabilité), l'argentine (sincérité), le réséda (vos qualités surpassent vos charmes), l'oranger (générosité) et le laurier (gloire).‎

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