Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
by:
L.D. Reynolds (author)
The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions. A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.
The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions. A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780198721468 (0198721463)
Publish date: May 9th 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
This is THE book to read on the problem of the transmission of antiquity -- it is written for the educated layman, yet is a book of scholarly authority. If one gets interested in the subject, the next thing is to find a copy of Lemerle's Byzantine Humanism -- published in French, but translated int...