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1: The Making of the Humanities: Volume I: Early Modern Europe
Jaap Maat (Ed.)
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Description for 1: The Making of the Humanities: Volume I: Early Modern Europe
Paperback. The first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Editor(s): Maat, Jaap; Weststeijn, Thijs; Bod, Rens. Num Pages: 400 pages, 45 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 736.
This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines highlight the intertwining of the various fields and their impact on the sciences. This first volume in the series The Making of the Humanities focuses on the early modern period. Different perspectives reveal how the humanities developed from the 'liberal arts', via the curriculum of humanistic schools, to modern disciplines. The authors show in particular how discoveries in the humanities contributed to a secular world view, pointing up connections with the scientific ... Read more
This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines highlight the intertwining of the various fields and their impact on the sciences. This first volume in the series The Making of the Humanities focuses on the early modern period. Different perspectives reveal how the humanities developed from the 'liberal arts', via the curriculum of humanistic schools, to modern disciplines. The authors show in particular how discoveries in the humanities contributed to a secular world view, pointing up connections with the scientific ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
735g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089642691
SKU
V9789089642691
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99-50
About Jaap Maat (Ed.)
http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/b/o/l.w.m.bod/l.w.m.bod.html target= _blank >Rens Bod is Vici-Laureate and Full Professor in Computational Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Beyond Grammar (CSLI/Cambridge University Press), Probabilistic Linguistics (MIT Press), Data-Oriented Parsing (University of Chicago Press), A New History of the Humanities (Oxford University Press).| http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/m/a/j.maat/j.maat.html target= _blank >Jaap Maat is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Books: ... Read more
Reviews for 1: The Making of the Humanities: Volume I: Early Modern Europe
Anja-Silvia Goeing, in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall 2012):[-] 'The strength of this book lies in the way it connects = well-known profiles to lesser-known figures, and in its discussion of those fields, including the visual arts, linguistics, and history, that had scarcely been defined among the artes liberales in the humanism of ... Read more