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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Table of Contents; Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities; I. The Humanities versus the Sciences; How Comparative Should a Comparative History of the Humanities Be?; Bridging the Gap; Music as Science and as Art; II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts; Representing the World; Ficino, Diacceto and Michelangelo's; 'Signs that Signify by Themselves'; III. Humanism and Heresy; Giordano Bruno and Metaphor; 'In Erudition There Is No Heresy'; IV. Language and Poetics; Humanism in the Classroom, a Reassessment; Origins and Principles; Transitional Texts and Emerging Linguistic Self-Awareness |
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V. Linguists and LogiciansThe Changing Relations between Grammar, Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period; The Artes Sermocinales in Times of Adversity; VI. Philology and Philosophy; Manuscript Hunting and the Challenge of Textual Variance in Late Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Studies; Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship; The 'Rules of Critique'; VII. The History of History; Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience; Philosophy's Shadow; Contributors; List of Figures; Index |
| Summary |
The first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities |
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History |
| Notes |
Contains papers presented at a conference held Oct. 23-25, 2008, Amsterdam |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Humanities -- Congresses
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Humanities -- Comparative method -- Congresses
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Humanities -- Research -- Congresses
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Humanities.
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Humanities
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Humanities -- Research
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bod, Rens, 1965-
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Maat, Jaap.
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Weststeijn, Thijs.
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| ISBN |
9789048513338 |
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9048513332 |
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1282985388 |
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9781282985384 |
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