Erasmus of Rotterdam and Christian Humanism: the Novum Instrumentum

If the new humanists beyond the Alps had focused only on the refined classicism that had characterized the last great Italian representatives, they would have remained obscure and marginal figures. They needed to give the movement a new impetus and demonstrate that its scope was much broader than merely literary. It is in this context … Leer más

The Indo-European linguistic family

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The existence of a common original language for most of Europe and Asia is nowadays a practically undisputed reality. From an extemporaneous perspective, the fact that peoples sometimes very distant from each other in time and space express themselves in languages that have important similarities, similarities that cannot be explained by mere coincidences, is surprising. … Leer más

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