The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Dutch scholarship has played an important role in philology since the early days of Leiden University. This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts—a tradition that had previously exerted considerable influence across fields as diverse as theolog...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2015]
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| Schriftenreihe: | History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Dutch scholarship has played an important role in philology since the early days of Leiden University. This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts—a tradition that had previously exerted considerable influence across fields as diverse as theology, astronomy, law, and politics—began an accelerated process of specialization in the 1800s. As former subareas like linguistics and history branched off into independent fields with their own methodologies, philology found its authority narrowing in scope within newly defined boundaries. Providing a fresh perspective on the evolution of Dutch philology as a discipline in the humanities, this is a fascinating look at a historically vital field of thought |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource 10 halftones |
| ISBN: | 9789048522033 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9789048522033 |