The Right Word II
Author: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780395348086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides synonym studies on the most important meanings and ideas of each entry.
Posts
Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)
Author: Domenic Leo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-08-16
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9004250832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.
From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-09-23
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0226818241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--
The Written World
Author: Martin Puchner
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0812998936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"--
Engaging the Written Word of God
Author: James Innell Packer
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1598569619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of articles written over forty years, Packer sets out his beliefs about the authority of Scripture and the principles that should be applied when interpreting it. Important topics such as the adequacy of human language, upholding the unity of Scripture, and challenges in Biblical interpretation are considered in the first two sections: "Gods Inerrant Word" and "Interpreting the Word." In the final section, "Preaching the Word," Packer turns his attention to pastoral leaders and the importance of correct and responsible expository preaching.
Scribe
Author: John Stevens
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06-30
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780966530506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA profusely illustrated, full-color retrospective of John Stevens' work with letterforms. Includes calligraphy and lettering -- artworks, personal work, experimental work, commissioned work -- as well as graphic work and type design. His body of work spans paper to stone, books to walls, to type and the digital realm. In the text, John presents his approach to a design or work and his thoughts on letterforms, and continues with a discussion on tools, teaching, design and writing in general. Using his body of work as example, he makes the case that barriers between fine arts and graphic arts are mostly irrelevant. A must have for calligraphers, lettering artists, typographers, type designers – anyone who love letters.
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-06-29
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521315654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFunctional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.
Beyond the Written Word
Author: William Albert Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521448208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined, considering orally distributed sacred writings.
Melchior Wankowicz
Author: Aleksandra Ziólkowska-Boehm
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0739175912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle of Monte Cassino”. Acclaimed by his readers and critics alike, Melchior Wankowicz was famous for creating his theory of reportage, i.e. the “mosaic method” where the events of many people were implanted into the life of one person. Melchior Wankowicz put into words the beautiful, tragic and heroic events of Polish history that provided a form of sustenance for a people that thrive on patriotism and love of their country. Wankowicz’s books shaped national consciousness, glorified the heroism of the Polish soldier. Later in his life, Wankowicz personally set an example by standing up to the Communist party that brought him to trail for his work. In this book, Ziolkowska-Boehm offers a critical examination of Wankowicz’s work informed by her experiences as his private secretary. Her access to the author’s personal archives shed new light on the life and work of the man considered by many to be “the father of Polish reportage.”
Oral World and Written Word
Author: Susan Niditch
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780664227241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an essential resource for understanding the question of the Bible's relationship to orality. Susan Niditch offers a strong argument for the continuity of the literature of the Israelites. She helps the modern reader look at the Bible as living words, breathing life into us daily, instead of seeing the text as a foregone artifact. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines--such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and literary criticism--to illuminate the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient cultures experienced. This series employs sophisticated methods resulting in original contributions that depict the reality of the people behind the Hebrew Bible and interprets these insights for a wide variety of readers.
