Research master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)
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The present thesis centres on languages and linguistic features encountered in the documentary texts from the Dead Sea region, focussing on the documentary texts from Wadi Murabba’at and Nahal...Show moreThe present thesis centres on languages and linguistic features encountered in the documentary texts from the Dead Sea region, focussing on the documentary texts from Wadi Murabba’at and Nahal Hever. Especially those features that might tell something about the identity of the people responsible for the production of these documents will be examined in detail. The overall aim is to detect these features and to explain them in light of their cultural background: to what extent do the formal and linguistic features visible in the documentary texts convey elements of conscious choices and unconscious linguistic patterns relating to the identity of the people who wrote these texts and how can these features be explained? It will be attempted to answer this general question through two key-objectives: 1. Through determining linguistic features and patterns of language choice in selected case studies. 2. Through explaining these features in light of their cultural-historical background.Show less
Research master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)
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This thesis explores the polemical function of the Clarorum virorum epistolae (1514) and the Illustrium virorum epistolae (1519), two collections of humanist letters published in the context of the...Show moreThis thesis explores the polemical function of the Clarorum virorum epistolae (1514) and the Illustrium virorum epistolae (1519), two collections of humanist letters published in the context of the Reuchlin affair, a seminal intellectual debate waged on the threshold of the Reformation. It also addresses the question, of how the letter volumes contribute to our current understanding of the process of humanist support in the debate.Show less
