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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Latin language"”.
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Neo-Latin America: the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic. Studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)
… to the more familiar Spanish- and Portuguese-language texts, consideration is also––and, for the purposes of the thesis, above all––given to material in Latin. Latin was the third of the international literary languages of the Iberian imperial world; it is also by far the most neglected, …
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The Syntax of the Finite Verb and the Nominal Forms fo the Verb in Pliny's Natural History Book Seventeen
… must recognize from the outset the nature of the Latin language—a synthetic structure, built up, as it were, of words in huge blocks, each pregnant with implicit thought. The analysis of syntax, therefore, is a difficult task, and the Investigator is forced at times to cut, rather than untie, the …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… his appropriation of Roman geography and his Latin language initiatives, both liturgical and Scriptural. Research was conducted first by consulting primary sources. These included the writings of Damasus himself, particularly his epigraphs, as well as epistolary correspondence. A key component …
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Play in the Roman imagination
… complex semantics of lexemes for play in the Latin language than in English (*ludus* also means e.g., ‘school’, ‘public festival’, ‘trick’), the study will move beyond the associations that the English concept ‘play’ suggests. The thesis argues that ‘play’ is a fundamental notion for Plautus’ …
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Patronage: The Renaissance and Today
… The word itself comes from "patronus" in the Latin language, meaning "defender, protector...advocate" (Harper, Online Etymology). The concept of patronage existed long before the Renaissance (14th - 17th centuries), but did not come into the forefront in terms of artistic support until the …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
Edmund Spenser's concepts of language have been seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of <italic>The Legend of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie …
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An investigation of the first year's Latin works in the high schools of Illinois
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Letters of a Learned Lady : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's Correspondence, with an Edition of her Letters to and from Otto Sperling the Younger
… the preserved letters to and from her written in Latin, Swedish, French and Italian. Her Neo-Latin correspondence with the Dane Otto Sperling the Younger is presented in a critical edition with English translation and commentary. The other preserved letters are presented in English summaries. In …