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The language of medicine.

Ciceronian controversies

Comminus eminus_Presentazione. Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, eds. Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times. This book is more than a hallmark in the study of the history of letter writing in early modern Europe The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the two centuries between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. .

Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, eds. Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times

It heralds an innovative approach to the examination and analysis of letter collections which traditionally have been studied for their biographical and historical evidence and literary value. For those many specialists in epistolography there is now a new approach to take in exploring the correspondences. The genre of letters, as shown in the twenty pioneering papers that constitute this hefty volume, has been studied through a social and personal analysis of the letter writer and recipient to understand the importance of the exchange or communication in early modern letters between writers, scholars, and scientists.

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Croatian Latinism. Macaronism. Bibliography. Modern Latin.