PRISCIAN

(Priscianus Caesariensis)prĭshˈən, fl. 500, Latin grammarian, b. Caesarea in Mauretania. Priscian taught grammar at Constantinople. His Commentarii grammatici, in 18 books, was long a standard text, and it was the basis of the work of Rabanus Maurus in the Middle Ages. Other extant writings of Priscian are a textbook on 12 lines of the Aeneid, a treatise on accents, a study of the meters of Terence, a treatise on symbols of weights and measures, and a work on the declensions of nouns.

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English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal
Book by Alan Coates; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Libraries--England--History--1400-1600, Manuscripts, Medieval--England--Reading--History, Monastic Libraries--England--Reading--History, Reading Abbey (Reading, England)--Library--History
...grammar books are listed at Reading: a Priscian Magnus and De constructionibus et de accentibus B71.175 , and another Priscian Magnus B71.176 . The first was clearly a copy of the whole of Priscian Institutiones grammaticae , with the spurious...
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Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion
Book by John F. A. Sawyer, J. M. Y. Simpson, R. E. Asher; Elsevier, 2001
Subjects: Language And Languages--Religious Aspects--Encyclopedias
...of the scientific kind were based on Priscian (according to the Aristotelian definition...extant. Attempts were made to replace Priscian as the required text but these do not...1431 still called for the reading of Priscian but this seems to have been more honourd...
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Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought, and Influence - Vol. 4
Book by Pamela Huby, Dimitri Gutas; Brill, 1992
Subjects: Authors, Greek--Biography--Sources, Philosophers--Greece--Biography--Sources, Theophrastus
317 7 Priscian of Lydia, ParaPhrase of Tlieophr(istus Discourse...of Aristotle as is 316, but it comes later in Priscian than 318. Aristotles text is uncertain, and so is that of Priscian/Theophrastus. The notion of taking a term in...
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The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany
Book by David Price; University of North Carolina Press, 1990
Subjects: Frischlin, Nicodemus--1547-1590--Criticism And Interpretation, Humanists--Germany, Latin Drama, Medieval And Modern--Germany--History And Criticism, Political Plays, Latin (Medieval And Modern)--Germany--History And Criticism
...situation at Tubingen. The figure of Priscian is strongly suggestive of Frischlin himself. 42 The portrayal of Priscian as a humanist who was out of sorts...Tobias Stimmer 1539-84 correlated Priscian with Frischlin by depicting the grammarian...
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Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
Book by Robert Black; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Education, Humanistic--Italy--History--To 1500, Education, Medieval--Italy, Educational Innovations--Italy--History--To 1500, Humanism--Italy--History--To 1500, Humanists--Italy, Italy--Intellectual Life--1268-1559, Italy--Intellectual Life--To 1268, Latin Language, Medieval And Modern--Study And Teaching--Italy, Latin Language--Study And Teaching--Italy--History--To 1500
...fashions in the thirteenth century. Priscian had long been considered too unwieldy...Ianua , itself a compendium of parts of Priscian, but also from Papiass Ars grammatica...mentioned grammar rules, based heavily on Priscian, were written because the Institutiones...
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The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie De France's Lais
Journal article by Monica Brzezinski Potkay; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 57, 2008
Subjects: French poets--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Works, Lais (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Marie de France--Criticism and interpretation, Marie de France--Works, Parable of the Sower (Parable)--Influence
...misattributes to the Latin grammarian Priscian, whose works served as standard textbooks...ancients, in the books which they wrote (Priscian testifies to this), to express themselves...asked about the Prologues lines about Priscian: First, since the grammarians Institutiones...
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The Art of Beekeeping Meets the Arts of Grammar: A Gloss of "Columcille's Circle"
Journal article by Martha Dana Rust; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 78, 1999
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bee culture--Records and correspondence, Benedictines--Records and correspondence, Monastic and religious life--Records and correspondence
...in his Institutionum Grammaticarum, Priscian alone cites 152 lines of the Georgics...to the Georgics itself, the works of Priscian and other grammarians survive in great...disposition towards bees is cited by Priscian in four places: "But if you fear a...
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Excerptiones De Prisciano: The Source for AElfric's Latin-Old English Grammar
Journal article by M.R. Godden; Medium Aevum, Vol. 72, 2003
Subjects: Excerptiones de Prisciano: The Source for AElfric's Latin-Old English Grammar (Book)--Reviews
...adaptation of the grammatical work of Priscian and others, running to 140 printed pages...massive task of digesting the writings of Priscian and others to form the Excerptiones would...various grammatical texts other than Priscian which had also been used by the compiler...
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Increasing Suspicion about Browning's Grammarian
Journal article by Arnd Bohm; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 44, 2006
Subjects: A Grammarian's Funeral (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Browning, Robert--Authorship, Browning, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry
...explain why the classical grammarian Priscian was one of Brunettos companions, laconically...argued that for Dante the grammarians like Priscian violated nature because they did not...1989), p. 270. On the problem of Priscian and what transgressions are implied...
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Deadly Letters: "Deus Amanz," Marie's "Prologue" to the 'Lais' and the Dangerous Nature of the Gloss
Journal article by Andrew Cowell; The Romanic Review, Vol. 88, 1997
Subjects: Authorship--Portrayals, depictions, etc., French poetry--To 1500, Marie de France--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...explicitly stated by Marie in her reference to Priscian (9-22). However, the implications...labels the commingling of Augustine with Priscian a "lapse" (p. 418 of "Glossing Marie...made by Hunt that Maries reference to Priscian involved the evocation of the "essential...
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encyclopedia articles on: Priscian  - 2 results

 
 
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Priscian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PRISCIAN (Priscianus Caesariensis)prish n...grammarian, b. Caesarea in Mauretania. Priscian taught grammar at Constantinople. His...Middle Ages. Other extant writings of Priscian are a textbook on 12 lines of the Aeneid...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius , Terentianus, Macrobius , Martianus Capella , and Priscian . As the classical inspiration died, the tradition of Latin literature was borrowed from and carried forward in Christian...


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