Classical Scholarship and Its History : : From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray /

Classical Scholarship and Its History : : From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray / / ed. by Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling.

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It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Briggs, Ward,
Butterfield, David,
Clackson, James,
Clarke, Michael,
Elsner, Jaś,
Gibson, Roy,
Hall, Edith,
Hallett, Judith P.,
Hardwick, Lorna,
Harrison, Stephen,
Kaster, Robert A.,
Pelling, Christopher,
Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina,
Stray, Christopher,
Whitaker, Graham,
HerausgeberIn:
Harrison, Stephen,
Pelling, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics – Scholarship in the Making , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 428 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Orientation and Origins
  • Tracking Classical Scholarship: Myth, Evidence and Epistemology
  • Part II: Early Modern
  • Classics Invented: Books, Schools, Universities and Society 1679–1742
  • The Vulgate Text of Seneca’s De beneficiis, 1475–1650
  • From Dares Phrygius to Thomas Jefferson, via Joseph of Exeter: A Study in Classical Reception
  • Part III: Victorian Cambridge and Oxford
  • The Shilleto Phenomenon
  • Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond
  • John Conington as Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford
  • Part IV: History of the Book/Commentary
  • Fifty Years of Green and Yellow: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series 1970–2020
  • Gomme’s Thucydides and the Idea of the Historical Commentary
  • ‘Pointing the Moral’ or ‘Adorning the Tale?’ Illustrations and Commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in 19th and Early 20thcentury American Textbooks
  • Part V: International Connections
  • The Founding of the American Philological Association
  • Gender and the Classical Diaspora
  • Room with a Few: Eduard Fraenkel and the Receptions of Reception
  • Part VI: Academic Practices
  • Congratulations and Celebrations: Unwrapping the Classical Festschrift
  • Working Together: Classical Scholars in Collaboration
  • Complete List of Publications of Christopher Stray
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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