Philology


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
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)
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Great Gatsby
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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
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

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

[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot be reached without sound practice and good method.
Y. Duhoux, A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and Their World

Abhijit Naskar
How will you know if you can speak another language? If you can curse someone on impulse without memorizing, you got the language in your gut. If you can console someone in pain, the language nestles in your heart.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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