1400850150

9781400850150

0691145644 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780691145648 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780691168586

"Cloistered bookworms, quarreling endlessly in the muses' bird-cage": from Greek antiquity to circa 1400

"A complete mastery of antiquity": Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond

"A voracious and undistinguishing appetite": British philology to the mid-eighteenth century

"Deep erudition ingeniously applied": revolutions of the later eighteenth century

"The similarity of structure which pervades all languages": from philology to linguistics, 1800-1850

"Genuinely national poetry and prose": literary philology and literary studies, 1800-1860

"An epoch in historical science": the civilized past, 1800-1850. I. Altertumswissenschaft and classical studies. II. Archaeology. III. History

"Grammatical and exegetical tact": biblical philology and its others, 1800-1860

"This newly opened mine of scientific inquiry": between history and nature: linguistics after 1850

"Painstaking research quite equal to mathematical physics": literature, 1860-1920

"No tendency toward dilettantism": the civilized past after 1850. I. 'Classics' becomes a discipline. II. History. III. Art history

"The field naturalists of human nature": anthropology congeals into a discipline, 1840-1910

"The highest and most engaging of the manifestations of human nature": biblical philology and the rise of religious studies after 1860. I. The fate of biblical philology. II. The rise of comparative religious studies

Epilogue.

Philology > History.