Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

James Turner

576 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 lit...

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