The William G. Bowen Series
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
The William G. Bowen Series
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
any today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more.
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Tells the story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. This title traces the development of humanistic learning from its beginning among ancient Greek scholars and rhetoricians, through the Middle Ages, and Enlightenment, to the English-speaking world of the 19th and early 20th centuries.