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Philology Books

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
A Guide to Old English
Studies in Words (Canto)
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 15 voters
The Night of the Gods by John O'NeillBaal, St. George, and Khidr by Robert D. Miller IIThe Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel OgdenKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteThe First Ghosts by Irving Finkel
•Bottomless Antiquarium
103 books — 2 voters

Jersey Norman French by Mari C. JonesThe Normans by Judith A. GreenThe Normans by Lars BrownworthThe Norman Conquest by Marc MorrisThe Normans in Sicily by John Julius Norwich
Norman History And Philology
10 books — 2 voters
The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad of Homer PLUS The Odyssey of Homer (translated by R... by Richmond LattimoreThe Iliad by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by Homer
Homeric Deep Dive: Translations, Scholarship, and Companion Reads
58 books — 1 voter

The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters

Quotes Tagged “Philology”

Abhijit Naskar
“ How will you know if you can speak another language? If you can curse someone on impulse without memorizing, you got the language in your gut. If you can console someone in pain, the language nestles in your heart. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“ Learning Old Irish is like mowing the lawn. … It’s not something you do just once. (p. xxxvi) ”
― Warren Cowgill, The Collected Writings of Warren Cowgill
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