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Philology


Philology Books

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
A Guide to Old English
Studies in Words (Canto)
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Night of the Gods by John O'NeillBaal, St. George, and Khidr by Robert D. Miller IIThe Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel OgdenKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteThe First Ghosts by Irving Finkel
•Bottomless Antiquarium
103 books — 2 voters
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters

The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad of Homer PLUS The Odyssey of Homer (translated by R... by Richmond LattimoreThe Iliad by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by Homer
Homeric Deep Dive: Translations, Scholarship, and Companion Reads
58 books — 1 voter
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 15 voters

Jersey Norman French by Mari C. JonesThe Normans by Judith A. GreenThe Normans by Lars BrownworthThe Norman Conquest by Marc MorrisThe Normans in Sicily by John Julius Norwich
Norman History And Philology
10 books — 2 voters

Quotes Tagged “Philology”

Anthony Marais
“ On language—from the mother tongue came our father’s sins. ”
― Anthony Marais
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Tamsyn Muir
“ I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was. ”
― Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
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