Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists: Studies of Language and Intellectual History in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists: Studies of Language and Intellectual History in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

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One of the burning issues of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy was the question of language. The single most important figure to treat this subject in the late Middle Ages was Dante Alighieri. The Dantean argument on language with its implicit acknowledgment of a classical bilingualism and its faith in the efficacy of the vernacular stimulated and defined the debate on language among the humanists of the 15th century. This book aims at a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language and at a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena. In so doing, it recaptures the theoretical assumptions -- philological empiricism, political ideology, stylistic imperatives, literary aspirations -- that shaped the thinking of Bruni, Biondo, Alberti, Guarino, Poggio, Filelfo, Valla, Landino and Lorenzo de' Medici. This work goes beyond the strict, technical periphery of linguistic enquiry, and becomes a study of intellectual history.

Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists: Studies of Language and Intellectual History in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History),Angelo Mazzocco,Brill Academic Publishers,9004097023,1265-1321,Dante Alighieri,,History,History: World,Humanism,Interior Design - General,Italy,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Language and languages,Linguistics,Linguistics (General),Medieval,Philosophy,Philosophy Of Language,Sociology,Contributions in philosophy of language,Dante Alighieri,History of ideas, intellectual history,Italian,Language & Linguistics,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Book Contents:

1. Lukian Von Samosata: Alexandros Oder Der Lugenprophet (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
2. Mary Emmerling's American Country West
3. Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work: Ibn Tawus and His Library (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
4. Modern Societies & the Science of Religions: Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer (Studies in the History of Religions, 95.)
5. Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
6. Mysticism and Politics: A Critical Reading of Fi Zilal Al- Qur'an by Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East ... Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
7. Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-Battle Narratives (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)
8. Naturwissenschaft Bei Den Arabern Im 10. Jahrhundert N. Chr. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
9. New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
10. Oral Performance and Its Context (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

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