Author : Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780395348086
Provides synonym studies on the most important meanings and ideas of each entry.
Author : Domenic Leo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004250832
The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.
Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812998936
"The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"--
Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0226818241
"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--
Author : James Innell Packer
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1598569619
In this collection of articles written over forty years, Packer sets out his beliefs about the authority of Scripture and the principles that should be applied when interpreting it. Important topics such as the adequacy of human language, upholding the unity of Scripture, and challenges in Biblical interpretation are considered in the first two sections: "Gods Inerrant Word" and "Interpreting the Word." In the final section, "Preaching the Word," Packer turns his attention to pastoral leaders and the importance of correct and responsible expository preaching.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1989-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315654
Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.
Author : Steve Gamel
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781612545271
Award-winning journalist and content writer Steve Gamel shares his best writing strategies gathered over the years of his career. Whether you're an old hand at writing, a novice, or a college professor aspiring to write full-time, this book is for you, so you too can Write Like You Mean It!
Author : William Albert Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1993-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521448208
The concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined, considering orally distributed sacred writings.
Author : Alfred Burns
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
This book examines how developments in the technology of writing and literacy stimulated changes in Western civilization from its beginnings to the present. The study suggests that a few rather short periods between long static intervals generated significant cultural and cognitive innovations which still dominate «modern» civilization. Concentrating on these milestone eras - the first urban civilization in the Near East, the Greek and Roman periods, and the Renaissance - the author finds a consistent association of advances in the technique of writing and literacy with intense intellectual creativity.
Author : Robert Edwin Bacharach
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781641056595
"A magnificent book on writing. Drawing on the lessons from psycholinguistics and rhetoric, Judge Bacharach has written a remarkably practical book on how to write effectively. Judge Bacharach illustrates his points with very specific suggestions and countless examples from briefs from top lawyers and opinions of judges. I learned so much from this wonderful book." -- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law
