Philology


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
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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)
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Great Gatsby
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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 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

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

Агатангел Кримський
Ох, філологіє! Ох, великомученице! Хто тебе не зважувався брати на муки! Кожен, хто пару слів тямить написати, та ще - не дай Боже - якусь чужу мову зна, - уже вважа себе коли не за справжнього лінгвіста, то хоч за таку людину, яка сміє авторитетно вирікати свій суд про філологічні й лінгвістичні справи. Всі інші науки не такі безталанні, не такі беззахисні перед профанами. Ніхто вам не зважиться (бо попросту посоромиться), не бувши спеціялістом, споритися проти астронома, ляпати дурниці проти т ...more
Ahatanhel Krymsky, Виривки з мемуарів одного старого гріховоди. Вибране

Jaroslav Pelikan
In principle, to be sure, the Reformation idea of the universal priesthood of all believers meant that not only the clergy but also the laity, not only the theologian but also the magistrate, had the capacity to read, understand, and apply the teachings of the Bible. Yet one of the contributions of the sacred philology of the biblical humanists to the Reformation was an insistence that, in practice, often contradicted the notion of the universal priesthood: the Bible had to be understood on the ...more
Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

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