In 2016, Florent Montaclair stepped into the spotlight when he received the Gold Medal of Philology, a sort of Nobel Prize ...

What do such disparate fields as linguistics, archaeology, religion, anthropology, classics and English literature have in common? Each commands its own academic department; each abounds in ...

In a bid to increase enrollment, especially of students of color, the Princeton Department of Classics in the spring of 2021 made the now infamous decision to eliminate its language requirement for ...

A paper is attached to this e-mail. Henning explains it like this: “This is the first chapter of a book manuscript on the history of orientalism as analyzed in the context of the history of philology.

Philology, now a relic discipline known primarily for being a “mind-numbingly boring” “big old thing”, as James Turner readily concedes, was once the most ambitious of sciences, a model for other ...

James Turner's book on "philology" must be the most wide-ranging work of intellectual history for many years. But what is it about? As Mr. Turner declares in his prologue, "philology has fallen on ...

In the recent years a few scholars have started working on philology from a summary and critical point of view, questioning the past, present and future making of philology. Their insights are both ...

I n his new book, The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities, which came out a couple of months ago from Cambridge, Christopher S. Celenza hitches his area of scholarly expertise ...

In this weighty, scholarly tome, Turner (Religion Enters the Academy), Cavanaugh Professor of humanities at Notre Dame, attempts to cover the concept of philology, “the multifaceted study of texts, ...