Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

by James Turner

Book Overview

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century

Many 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 history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069116858X
• ISBN13: 9780691168586
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"