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The book to bring together a fascinating compendium of witticisms on women-more than 15,000 sayings from around the globe and translated from more than 240 languages.

Proverbs. --- Proverbs --- Women --- Paremiology --- Paroemiology --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- History and criticism.

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A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph.An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom, 'Ali was renowned for his eloquence: his words were collected, "ed, and studied over the centuries, and extensively anthologized, excerpted, and interpreted.Of the many compilations of 'Ali’s words, A Treasury of Virtues, compiled by the Fatimid Shafi'i judge al-Quda'i, arguably possesses the broadest compass of genres and the largest variety of themes. Included are aphorisms, proverbs, sermons, speeches, homilies, prayers, letters, dialogues, and verse, all of which provide instruction on how to be a morally upstanding human being. The shorter compilation included here, One Hundred Proverbs, is attributed to the eminent writer al-Jahiz (d. 255/869). This volume presents the first English translation of both of these important collections.

Hadith (Shiites) --- Islamic sermons. --- Proverbs. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern. --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Islam --- Muslim sermons --- Islamic literature --- Sermons

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"Bedeutung" und "Wahrheit" eines Sprichwortes sind kontextabhängig. Die vorliegende exegetische Untersuchung von Prov 10,1-22,16 unterteilt den Text in Unterabschnitte, die der oder die Herausgeber der Sammlung bewußt in ihrer jetzigen Reihenfolge zusammengestellt haben. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Auswirkung diese literarische Anordnung auf die Bedeutung der einzelnen Sprichwörter hat und welche Funktion diesen im Kontext zukommt. Mit Namen-, Stellen- und Sachregister. Exegetical study of Proverbs 10:1-22:16. Proverbs are neither statements of this-worldly cause and effect nor universally applicable doctrines of divine order. Rather, a proverb’s meaning and ‚truth‘ are conditioned by the context. The author delimits sections which the editor(s) of the collection consciously grouped together in their present sequence. He then examines how these literary arrangements both influence the meaning of the individual proverbs and determine their function in context. Indexes of names, passages and subjects are included.

Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 223.4 --- Boek der Spreuken --- Bible. O.T. Proverbs X, 1-XXII, 16 --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Proverbs. --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims

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Dieses Kompendium dokumentiert erstmals vollständig und methodisch reflektiert die Sentenzen und Sprichwörter in den deutschen Artus-, Gral- und Tristanromanen des Mittelalters und erschließt damit eine wichtige, zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit aufgespannte kommunikativ-pragmatische Dimension der höfischen Versromane. In einem differenzierten Gesamtverzeichnis werden die Sentenzen in 21 Romanen aus einem Zeitraum von ca. 100 Jahren (ca. 1170-1300) gesammelt, im narrativen Kontext abgebildet, über eine Sinnparaphrase semantisch erläutert, durch den Nachweis von Parallelstellen im Sentenzen-Netzwerk des jeweiligen Werks verortet und mittels Belegen aus der Bibel und der lateinischen bzw. volkssprachlichen Literatur des Mittelalters in die zugehörige Anwendungstradition eingeordnet. Das Kompendium fundiert damit nicht nur die Theorie der mediävistischen Sentenzen- und Sprichwörterforschung neu, sondern rekonstruiert über die Abbildung der einzelnen Belege hinaus werkimmanente ,Sentenzen-Netzwerke', die interpretatorisch von großer Bedeutung sind und aufzeigen, wie sehr im hohen Mittelalter schriftliterarische Erzählhandlungen von mündlich vermittelten Wertmaßstäben und allgemeinem ,Weltwissen' durchzogen sind. Die narrativ eingebetteten Sentenzen tragen maßgeblich zur Lenkung des Lesers und zur semantischen Aufladung der Handlungselemente bei, indem sie allgemein akzeptiertes Orientierungswissen in die fiktionalen Texte integrieren und diese damit kausal bzw. ethisch autorisieren. Durch die tabellarische Dokumentation des Materials geraten hier erstmals die Quantität, aber auch die kommunikativen Leistungen der in die Romane eingearbeiteten Sentenzen systematisch in den Blick. Das Werk berücksichtigt die neueste Forschung zur Sprichwortforschung und ist ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel sowohl für die Erforschung der berücksichtigten einzelnen Romane als auch der Poetik der epischen Literatur des Mittelalters im Ganzen. Neben dem eigentlichen Tabellenwerk stellt die ausführliche Einleitung die methodischen Grundlagen des Handbuchs sowie den gattungsgeschichtlichen und textpragmatischen Erkenntniswert des dokumentierten Textkorpus dar. Das aus einem DFG-Projekt hervorgegangene Kompendium ist eine Gemeinschaftsleistung der Universitäten Bochum und Münster.

Aphorisms and apothegms --- Proverbs. --- Arthurian romances --- Romances, German. --- Literature, Medieval. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- German romances --- German literature --- Romances --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Apothegms --- Quotations, maxims, etc. --- Literature (in the Middle Ages). --- Medieval Romances.

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Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.

Arts. --- Social classes. --- God --- Proverbs. --- Public opinion. --- Will. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Will --- Divine commands (Ethics) --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions