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The Rise of Universities

The Rise of Universities

Charles Homer Haskins

Haskins' argument is a powerful one: that today's university system is a direct (and immediate) descendent of the collections of scholars who gathered around master teachers in the great cities of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth ...
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

Charles Homer Haskins

Examines the historical background and major cultural developments of the Mediaeval Renaissance.
Norman Institutions

Norman Institutions

Charles Homer Haskins

First published in 1918, Norman Institutions, a group of thematically linked essays on political and legal institutions, contains still-standard analyses of aspects of judicial administration, trial by jury and feudal custom in Norman lands ...
Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the ...

Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the ...

John McClelland

Haskins, Charles Homer (1929) 'The Latin Literature of Sport', in Studiesin Mediaeval Culture, Oxford: Clarendon: 105–23. Haton, Claude(2001) Mémoires 1553–1582, (ed.) Laurent Bourquin, 3 vols, Paris: CTHS. Heldris deCornuälle ( 1972) ...
Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Homer

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
The Cambridge companion to Homer

The Cambridge companion to Homer

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Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

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'"Iliad-no sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-GEN author-cop Homer-NOM '[It] is the author of the Iliad, Homer.' 0 a. *Iliad-wa, sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-TOP author-cop Homer-NOM 'As for the Iliad, [it] is the author, Homer.' b. Homer-ga ...
Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Author Homer

Little is known about the poet Homer but he is thought to have composed the Iliad in the second half of the eight century BC and according to tradition lived on the island of Chios in the east Aegean.
COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

Joachim Latacz

Inhaltsverzeichnis Homer und die archäologische Forschung Homer und die althistorische Forschung Homer und die Sprachwissenschaft Mythenforschung und Religionswissenschaft im Zusammenhang mit Homer Biographische Forschung zu Homer Die ...
The Argonauts of California: Being the Reminiscences of ...

The Argonauts of California: Being the Reminiscences of ...

Charles Warren Haskins

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

The Resonance of Epic Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold. the name 'Homer' spoke of beautiful poetry, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were eventually singled out as the best poems. The rules which dictated that 'Homer and Homer ...
The Homeschooler's Book of Lists: More Than 250 Lists, ...

The Homeschooler's Book of Lists: More Than 250 Lists, ...

Sonya Haskins

More Than 250 Lists, Charts, and Facts to Make Planning Easier and Faster Sonya Haskins. The Homeschooler's Book of Lists Copyright © 2007 Sonya A. Haskins Cover design by Eric Walljasper Interior design by Brian Brunsting Scripture ...
ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA BEING

ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA BEING

Charles Warren Haskins

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Homer's Text and Language

Homer's Text and Language

Gregory Nagy

In Homeric studies, an ongoing debate centers on different ways to establish the texts of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer.
Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier

Those on the contrary who have maintained that Homer did not exist till many ages after the taking of Troy, being ... are necessarily obliged to suppose that the author of the Iliad, whosoever he may have been, Homer, Ulysses, or any one else, ...
Clem Haskins: Breaking Barriers

Clem Haskins: Breaking Barriers

Clem Haskins

Mario, Connell, Bob and Rob played quite a bit on that trip and I knew that would really pay off once we got into the heart of our Big Ten schedule. We were a perfect 7-0 on that trip. Every other school that had gone on that same trip up until  ...
Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer

Homer, Thomas Bridges, COTTON (Junior, pseud. [i.e. Thomas Bridges.]) ... that material article, we. an author to stand to his Word in any thing in money matters - , I know it isbetter never 6 THE AUTHOR'S must understand, is a new one of 'my .. .
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

closeness to the gods and his poverty, and yet modern scholars seem to take Homer's closeness to the gods for granted ... Latacz is one of the tew scholars who states these assumptions explicitly, In his entry on Homer for Der Neue Paid. y he ...

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