دانلود کتاب Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 500–1500

Proceedings of an international conference held at King's College, Cambridge, April 1969.

This volume consists of original papers first read at King’s College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way or another with the spread and influence of classical, particularly Roman, civilization through a number of European cultures from A.D. 500 to 1500. Their primary intention here is to indicate the most urgent and promising directions for future research in what is still a relatively unexplored field.

The book begins with the manuscript tradition — the contents, location and history of the literary remains which provide the basic evidence on which all research in this subject must to some extent rely. This leads naturally to a discussion of what classical texts were actually read and studied, when, where, and by whom. The majority of contributors go on to examine the Roman tradition as a positive cultural influence on language, literature, philosophy and art. Classical civilization is shown to be a live historical force whose survival consists rather in the creative responses and developments it has inspired than in the mere preservation of its physical relics.