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Never marry a woman with big feet
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ISBN: 1282634011 9786612634017 9400600194 9789400600195 9789087281007 9087281005 9781282634015 6612634014 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Leiden] Leiden University Press

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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.


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Proverbium.
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ISSN: 28067568 Year: 1984 Publisher: Columbus, OH : Burlington, VT : Ohio State University in cooperation with the University of Vermont and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Vermont

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"Yearbook of international proverb scholarship."


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A treasury of virtues
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ISBN: 0814729258 9780814729250 9780814771853 0814771858 9780814729144 0814729142 9781479826551 1479826553 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

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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.

The European emblem
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ISBN: 0889200904 9780889208445 0889208441 9780889200906 Year: 1980 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont.

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Emblems—pictorial designs with accompanying mottoes and epigrams— helped to shape virtually every form of verbal and visual communication in the West during the sixteenth and seventh centuries. A recent re-awakening of scholarly interest in the emblem has brought to light the difficulty of locating and consulting the unorganized mass of available material. Recognizing the need for a large-scale systematic index to the emblem, the editor organized a symposium at McGill University to discuss the possibilities of preparing such an index. The resulting papers by six symposium participants— Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Peter M. Daly, Peter Erb, G. Richard Dimler, Lorelei Robins, and Alan Young—contribute to our knowledge of the emblems of Peacham and Corrozet, the Dutch love emblems, the Jesuit emblem, and emblems used in books of mediation. The essays also discuss the problems and procedures involved in preparing an Index Emblematicus, a work which would serve scholars working in the fields of literature, art, culture, religion, history, and the languages. The volume is richly illustrated with over forty emblem reproductions.

Like grapes of gold set in silver : an interpretation of proverbial clusters in proverbs 10:1 - 22:16
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ISBN: 3110163764 3111807584 3110864584 9783110864588 9783110163766 9783110163766 Year: 2001 Volume: 273 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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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.

Duden Zitate und Aussprüche
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ISBN: 3411041218 Year: 1998 Volume: Bd. 12 Publisher: Mannheim Dudenverlag

Friends hold all things in common : tradition, intellectual property, and the "Adages" of Erasmus
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ISBN: 1281722634 9786611722630 0300133642 9780300133646 9781281722638 9780300087574 0300087578 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

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Erasmus' Adages-a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity-was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship. In this elegant and tightly argued book, Kathy Eden focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favorite philosophers-Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ-and the early history of private property that gradually transforms European attitudes concerning the right to copy. In the process she accounts for the peculiar shape of Erasmus' collection of more than 3,000 proverbs and provides insightful readings of such ancient philosophical and religious thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Iamblichus, Tertullian, Basil, Jerome, and Augustine.


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Handbuch der Sentenzen und Sprichwörter im höfischen Roman des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts.
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ISBN: 1282125362 9786612125362 3110212390 9783110212396 3110172542 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin New York Walter de Gruyter

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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.


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Dancing around the well
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ISBN: 9004277153 9789004277151 9789004274396 9004274391 1322128049 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.

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