Book of Donmon Teith

Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communicat

That saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is b

Major authors investigated include Chaucer, Blake, Romains, Pynchon, and Prigogine.

Between 1500 and 1800, the rapid evolution of postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across Europe like never before. This excha

This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The