Word Studies in the Renaissance
Word Studies in the Renaissance

Author: Gabriele Stein

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0192534289

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The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to explain and transpose it into another language; their assessment of different linguistic and cultural expressions, and their morphological analyses; and their efforts to find ways of structuring and presenting lexical information. Gabriele Stein explores the influence of the works by Ambrogio Calepino, Robert Estienne, Hadrianus Junius, and Conrad Gesner, and the extent to which bi- and multilingual dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character; she also provides the first in-depth and richly-illustrated discussion of the use of typographical resources to present the structure of lexical information.

Word Studies in the Renaissance
Word Studies in the Renaissance

Author: Gabriele Stein

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0198807376

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This volume examines the ways in which Renaissance lexicographers selected, described, and analysed the lexicon. It explores the extent to which bi- and multilingual word lists and dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character, and discusses the increasing use of typography to present lexical information structure.

Words That Matter
Words That Matter

Author: Judith H. Anderson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780804726313

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The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources?treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons?the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.

Alchemy of the Word
Alchemy of the Word

Author: Philip Beitchman

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-04-02

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780791437384

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Explores the literary, philosophical, and cultural implications of Cabala during the Renaissance.

Strong Words
Strong Words

Author: Lauro Martines

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Neighborhood voices in poetry - The verbal web of patronage - Prayer in the urban setting - Love and history : men against women - Suicide of a poet - Alienation : the outsider as poet - Cruelty in the community - Seduction and family space - Poetry as political memory - Crisis in the generation of 1494.

Studies in Words
Studies in Words

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-09-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521398312

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C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.

Leonardo’s Paradox
Leonardo’s Paradox

Author: Joost Keizer

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2019-06-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1789141028

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He spent an incredible amount of time writing notebooks, perhaps even more time than he ever held a brush, yet at the same time Leonardo was Renaissance culture’s most fanatical critic of the word. When Leonardo criticized writing he criticized it as an expert on words; when he was painting, writing remained in the back of his brilliant mind. In this book, Joost Keizer argues that the comparison between word and image fueled Leonardo’s thought. The paradoxes at the heart of Leonardo’s ideas and practice also defined some of Renaissance culture’s central assumptions about culture and nature: that there is a look to script, that painting offered a path out of culture and back to nature, that the meaning of images emerged in comparison with words, and that the difference between image-making and writing also amounted to a difference in the experience of time.

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

Author: Angela Nuovo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9004208496

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This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.

Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism
Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism

Author: Angelo Mazzocco

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-07-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9047410246

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Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its classical learning, its religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae. Their interpretations are varied to the point of being contradictory. The essays bear the imprint of the work of the eminent scholars of the second half of the twentieth century, especially Kristeller’s, and demonstrate an awareness of the various modes of critical inquiry that have prevailed in recent years. As such they are an important exemplar of current scholarship on Renaissance humanism and are, therefore, indispensable to the scholar who wishes to explore this pivotal cultural movement. Contributors include: Robert Black, Alison Brown, Riccardo Fubini, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, Eckhard Kessler, Arthur F. Kinney, Angelo Mazzocco, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Massimo Miglio, John Monfasani, Charles G. Nauert, and Ronald G. Witt.