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The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands /

Dutch scholarship has played an important role in philology since the early days of Leiden University. This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts-a tradition that had previously exerted considerable influence across fields as diverse as theolog...

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Otros Autores: Zuidervaart, Huib (Editor ), Kalmthout, Ton van (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Dutch scholarship has played an important role in philology since the early days of Leiden University. This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts-a tradition that had previously exerted considerable influence across fields as diverse as theology, astronomy, law, and politics-began an accelerated process of specialization in the 1800s. As former subareas like linguistics and history branched off into independent fields with their own methodologies, philology found its authority narrowing in scope within newly defined boundaries. Providing.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9789048522033
Acceso:Open Access