Download or read book Medieval Robots written by E. R. Truitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages. Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions.
Download or read book The Dispersion written by Stéphane Dufoix and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.
Download or read book Dictionnaire Historique de la langue fran aise written by Alain Rey and published by Le Robert. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 15149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'aventure millénaire des mots Sous la direction d'Alain Rey Un dictionnaire unique au monde à lire comme un roman - L'histoire détaillée de plus de 50 000 mots du français depuis leur apparition dans la langue : les évolutions de formes, de sens, et d'usages au cours des siècles - Des articles encyclopédiques - 50 schémas pour retrouver la généalogie des mots Une nouvelle édition entièrement revue, actualisée et enrichie par Alain Rey - Des ajouts sur l'origine et l'histoire de mots récents (en particulier dans les domaines technique et scientifique) - Des ajouts sur l'origine et l'histoire de mots d'argot du XIXe siècle et de la première partie du XXe siècle - Des ajouts sur l'histoire des mots français de la francophonie, en Belgique, en Suisse, au Québec, mais aussi des mots du Maghreb, d'Afrique, des Antilles, et d'autres lieux encore En savoir plus :www.lerobert-historique.com Fonctionnalités - Une table des matières pour accéder aux différentes parties de l'ouvrage - La recherche d'un mot facilitée par des index alphabétiques - Une mise en pages écran d'une grande lisibilité, le réglage de la taille des caractères - Toutes les annexes : préface, bibliographie, chronologie, glossaire des langues Cette version est optimisée pour une lecture avec le logiciel iBooks sur iOS, et notamment sur iPad.
Download or read book A Name To Exist written by Marcienne Martin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Iliad and the Odyssey, song IX, Ulysses chooses the anthroponomy “Nobody” to escape the Cyclops. This onomastic game operates on two levels of meaning: the first referring to the anthroponomical fact, and the second to the lexicon, more specifically, to the common name. Ahead of his time, Ulysses would have surfed the Internet under the pseudonym Nobody... The nomination of a name allows all world objects to be included within the human paradigm. If to nominate is also an act which allows the social subject to be part of civil society and to be well-known and recognised by the other, what about nomination and pseudonyms on the internet? This book investigates this question through both a detailed study of the nomination of objects of the world and two surveys of Internet users and of a corpus of pseudonyms collected on forums and blogs on online newspapers.
Download or read book The Vocabulary of Modern French written by Hilary Wise and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French. With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions. Topics covered include: * external influences on the language * word formation * semantic change * style and register In addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language. Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographic databases of all kinds. The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French.
Download or read book Insurgent Sepoys written by Shaswati Mazumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. What has remained out of the focus of study during the last 150 years is the possible impact of the Revolt elsewhere, its so to say international dimension: what, in particular, was the reaction in Europe where elemental social and political transformations were underway. Whatever the varied nature of the reactions, the space given to the Revolt in many European newspapers and journals while it was in progress is certainly extensive. What is more, representations of and reflections on the Revolt appeared both during the event and for long after its suppression, above all in forms of popular fiction but also in historical accounts, letters, reminiscences and other forms of writing. The collection of essays in this volume ventures into this unexplored terrain and offers a first look at some of these European responses.
Download or read book Essai D Un Dictionnaire Historique de La Langue Francaise written by Paulin Paris and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Change of Object Expression in the History of French written by MIchelle Troberg and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression provides insight into the construal of a class of two-place activity verbs in the history of French and proposes that a change in the prepositional system underlies the shift. The book focuses on nineteen verbs of helping and hindering whose single internal object shifts from indirect to direct object during the 15th and 16th century. It describes how these verbs are distinguished from all other verbs that take indirect objects in French and explains why only their indirect object was the target of change. Troberg offers a detailed examination of the data to show that contrary to previous approaches to the problem, the shift was neither random nor a result of low-level analogical changes. An important outcome of the study links the shift in object expression to other changes in the grammar at the end of the Middle French period. The author argues that the loss of the syntactically derived Path meaning, available to simple prepositions in the earlier stages of French, not only brings about the decisive shift in object expression, but also triggers the loss of a number of resultative secondary predicate constructions at the same time.
Download or read book A catalogue of dictionaries and grammars of the principal languages and dialects of the world for sale by Tr ner co With Tr bner s oriental linguistic publications a catalogue written by Trübner and co and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trubner s Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the principal languages and dialects of the world with a list of the leading works in the science of language written by Nikolaus Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tr bner s Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World written by Trübner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tr bner s Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World 2d Ed Considerably Enlarged and Revised with an Alphabetical Index A Guide for Students and Booksellers written by Trübner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Place of Words written by Michael P. Fitzsimmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place of Words examines the fifth and most controversial edition of the dictionary of the Académie Française, published in 1798 and spanning several regimes before the publication of the sixth in 1835. Full of anachronisms and appearing to slight the French Revolution, from the outset the edition received much judgement and critique. Under the Consulate, the government used it as an instrument to assert control over the language. As the first book-length study of this controversial fifth edition, A Place of Words offers insights into the Revolution and Napoleonic periods neglected in previous scholarship.
Download or read book A History of the French Language Through Texts written by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French.
Download or read book A Comprehensive French Grammar written by Glanville Price and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by clear and accessible explanations, numerous examples and sample sentences, a new section on register and tone, and useful appendices covering topics including age and time, A Comprehensive French Grammar, Sixth Edition is an indispensable tool for advanced students of French language and literature. A revised edition of this established, bestselling French grammar Includes a new section on register and medium and offers expanded treatment of French punctuation Features numerous examples and sample sentences, and useful appendices covering topics including age, time, and dimension, all available in an easily-navigable format Written by renowned French scholar, Glanville Price
