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This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of
ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy,
including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing
systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This
book allows readers to access diverse sources relating to the
history and cultures of pre-Roman Italy. It gathers and translates
sources from both Greek and Latin literature and ancient
inscriptions in multiple languages and gives commentary to
highlight areas of particular interest. The thematic organisation
of this sourcebook helps readers to make connections across
languages and communities, and showcases the interconnectedness of
ancient Italy. This book includes maps, a timeline, and guides to
further reading, making it accessible to students and other readers
who are new to this subject. Italy Before Rome is aimed at
undergraduate and graduate students, including those who have not
studied the ancient world before. It is also intended to be useful
to researchers approaching this material for the first time, and to
university and schoolteachers looking for an overview of early
Italian sources.
This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of
ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy,
including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing
systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This
book allows readers to access diverse sources relating to the
history and cultures of pre-Roman Italy. It gathers and translates
sources from both Greek and Latin literature and ancient
inscriptions in multiple languages and gives commentary to
highlight areas of particular interest. The thematic organisation
of this sourcebook helps readers to make connections across
languages and communities, and showcases the interconnectedness of
ancient Italy. This book includes maps, a timeline, and guides to
further reading, making it accessible to students and other readers
who are new to this subject. Italy Before Rome is aimed at
undergraduate and graduate students, including those who have not
studied the ancient world before. It is also intended to be useful
to researchers approaching this material for the first time, and to
university and schoolteachers looking for an overview of early
Italian sources.
This book offers valuable insights into biography's role as a form
of social and cultural negotiation geared to advance the
biographer's career. It presents case studies of four exemplary
biographies and one autobiography of major intellectual figures of
France spanning the period 1540-1630.
When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence Petrus
Ramus (1515-1572) gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils
stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil
was Ramus's future biographer, the much less famous Nicolas de
Nancel (1539-1610), who recounted this anecdote in his Vita Rami
(1599). Nancel's insertion of himself into his life of Ramus is
typical of early modern biographies of men of letters. As
biographer, the humanist man of letters situated himself within the
same cultural field as his subject, thereby accrediting himself as
a fellow man of letters by his display of humanistic competence.
The first monograph study of the lives of men of letters in
sixteenth-century France, this ground-breaking book offers valuable
insights into biography's role as a form of social and cultural
negotiation geared to advance the biographer's career.
Written for working and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers
and screenwriters, The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers walks through
every stage of the marketing process - from concept to
post-production - and illustrates how creative decisions at each
stage will impact the marketability of a film. In this book,
marketing experts Schwartz and MacDonald welcome you behind the
curtain into the inner workings of Marketing department at both the
studios and independents. They also track films of different
budgets (studio, genre, independent and documentary) through the
marketing process, examining how each discipline will approach your
film. Featuring interviews with both marketers and filmmakers
throughout, an extensive glossary and end-of-chapter exercises, The
Marketing Edge for Filmmakers offers a unique introduction to film
marketing and a practical guide for understanding the impact of
marketing on your film.
Written for working and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers
and screenwriters, The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers walks through
every stage of the marketing process - from concept to
post-production - and illustrates how creative decisions at each
stage will impact the marketability of a film. In this book,
marketing experts Schwartz and MacDonald welcome you behind the
curtain into the inner workings of Marketing department at both the
studios and independents. They also track films of different
budgets (studio, genre, independent and documentary) through the
marketing process, examining how each discipline will approach your
film. Featuring interviews with both marketers and filmmakers
throughout, an extensive glossary and end-of-chapter exercises, The
Marketing Edge for Filmmakers offers a unique introduction to film
marketing and a practical guide for understanding the impact of
marketing on your film.
Zillah Katherine Macdonald was born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and is noted for her children's books, as well as for a
series of "career romances for young moderns." "Eileen's Adventures
in Wordland" is Macdonald's first novel for children, and is a real
delight for lovers of words and wordplay. Eileen's companion "X"
leads her to encounters ranging from a meeting with Blighty, a word
born during the first World War, to meeting with Grandmother
Indo-European, who introduces Eileen to a number of her "language
children." Embellished by Stuart Hay's charming illustrations, this
"life story of our Word friends" will appeal to readers young and
old who delight in the sounds and sense of language."
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient
Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in
which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements
of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of
case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to
the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to
Pannonia. The book includes detailed study of epigraphic and
literary evidence written in Latin and Greek, as well as work on
languages which are not so well documented, such as Etruscan and
Oscan. There is a subject index and an index of works and
inscriptions cited.
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing
systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm.
Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the
sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the
relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken
languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a
new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in
Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse
tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that
genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek
was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient
bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their
writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to
build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary
languages across the ancient world.
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing
systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm.
Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the
sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the
relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken
languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a
new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in
Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse
tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that
genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek
was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient
bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their
writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to
build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary
languages across the ancient world.
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient
Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in
which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements
of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of
case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to
the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to
Pannonia. The book includes detailed study of epigraphic and
literary evidence written in Latin and Greek, as well as work on
languages which are not so well documented, such as Etruscan and
Oscan. There is a subject index and an index of works and
inscriptions cited.
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