This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an ...encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
This study examines modes of representation for $\Psi\upsilon\chi \acute\eta$ ('psyche') in the work of Laurence Sterne and Denis Diderot. The notion of $\Psi\upsilon\chi\acute\eta$ is placed within ...an eighteenth-century context via theories concerning the location of the soul and the soul of animals, the connection between $\Psi\upsilon\chi\acute\eta$ and related terms such as mind, esprit, spirit(s), anima, animal, ame, soul, heart, sentiment, materialist thought, and iconographic traditions for depicting human mortality. The elusiveness ascribed to $\Psi\upsilon\chi\acute\eta$ and strategies of evasive, indirect representation define a theoretical focus. Special attention is given to deixis, hypograms, puns, ekphrasis, the relationship between writing and painting, as well as exemplification.
A voyage round the world by George Forster Thomas, Nicholas; Berghof, Oliver; Williams, Glyndwr
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