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Loading... Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500-1500by Robert Ralph Bolgar (Editor)
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This volume consists of original papers first read at Kings College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way or another with the spread and influence of classical, particularly Roman, civilisation through a number of European cultures from AD 500 to 1500. The book begins with the manuscript tradition - the contents, location and history of the literary remains that provide the basic evidence on which all research in this subject must to some extent rely. This leads naturally to a discussion of what classical texts were actually read and studied, when, where and by whom. The majority of contributors go on to examine the Roman tradition as a positive cultural on language, literature, philosophy and art. Classical civilisation is shown to be a live historical force whose survival consists rather in the creative responses and developments it has inspired than in the mere preservation of its physical relics. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)809.02Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By Period 6th-15th centuries, 500-1499LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |