Agricola and Germania

Agricola and Germania PDF Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014045540X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Undeniably one of Rome's most important historians, Tacitus was also one of its most gifted. Ideal for college students, this newly revised edition of two seminal works on Imperial Rome is now available.

Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators

Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators PDF Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872208117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1991 Eminent scholar and translator, Herbert W. Benario, provides a faithful, readable translation of these works, introductory essays, chapter summaries, and notes. A bibliography, maps, and an index are included.

A Most Dangerous Book

A Most Dangerous Book PDF Author: Christopher B. Krebs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393062651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.

De Natura Fossilium (Textbook of Mineralogy)

De Natura Fossilium (Textbook of Mineralogy) PDF Author: Georgius Agricola
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
This 1546 publication remains a landmark in geology, with unprecedented classifications by physical property and locality, simple standardized naming system, summaries of earlier studies, and employment of observation and personal experience.

Tacitus

Tacitus PDF Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description

Spreading the Written Word

Spreading the Written Word PDF Author: Kaisa Häkkinen
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN: 9522227552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
The Protestant Reformation began in Germany in 1517, and the adoption of Lutheranism was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. As the Reformation required the use of the vernacular in services and ecclesiastical ceremonies, new manuals and biblical translations were needed urgently. The first Finnish books were produced by Mikael Agricola. He was born an ordinary son of a farmer, but his dedication to his studies opened up the road to leading roles in the Finnish Church. He was able to bring a total of nine works in Finnish to print, which became the foundation of literary Finnish. The first chapter outlines the historical background necessary to understand the life’s work of Mikael Agricola. The second chapter describes Agricola’s life. Chapter three presents the Finnish works published by Agricola. The fourth chapter is a depiction of Agricola’s Finnish. Agricola carried out his life’s work as part of a network of influential connections, which is described in chapter five. The sixth chapter examines the importance of Agricola’s work, research on Agricola and Agricola’s role in contemporary Finnish culture. The book mainly focuses on language and cultural history, but in terms of Church history, it also provides a review on the progression and arrival of the Reformation to Finland. Finnish is a Uralic language but the source languages of Agricola’s translations – Latin, German, Swedish and Greek – were all Indo-European languages. Thus, the oldest Finnish texts were strongly influenced by foreign elements and structures. Some of those features were later eliminated whereas others became essential constituents of standard Finnish. To illustrate this development, the Finnish in Agricola’s works has systematically been compared with the standard contemporary language.
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