Classical influences on European culture a.d. 500-1500 : proceedings of an international conference held at King's College, Cambridge, april 1969. - Bolgar, R. R.

proceedings of an international conference held at King's College, Cambridge, April 1969.

KORTE INHOUD

'Twenty-seven papers are included in this handsome publication of the proceedings, with an introduction by Dr. Bolgar summarizing and commenting on the results of the conference. Professor Gombrich, in his stimulating contribution on Personification which opened the proceedings, describes himself as feeling like Ignorance personified. A reviewer (...) faced with these diverse products of specialized scholarship may well have the same feeling. (...) Some knowledge of the history of manuscripts, their distribution and availability at different periods, is an essential foundation for the study of classical influences before the invention of printing; as one of the contributors remarks, scholars are still apt to ignore this and to find in a medieval writer echoes of a classical author who cannot have been known to him. Two of the papers give information about aids to such study, actual or projected. (...) other papers show how study of the history of texts can illuminate cultural history. (...) Dr. Bolgar rightl...
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1971Uitgever: Cambridge, University Press, 1971.320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521078423ISBN-13: 9780521078429

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