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The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism
By (Author) Nancy S. Struever
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
940.21
Hardback
224
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on rece