Jordanes was a Goth who, although not a scholar, devoted himself to writing history in Latin.
His family, friends, colleagues and students mourn the loss of an extraordinary teacher, noted literary scholar, devoted husband, and loving father and grandfather.
"But it does exist, and there's a whole community of museums, dealers, collectors, curators and scholars devoted to it".
You really expect us to believe that?" So many Chinese officials have been arrested for embezzling funds through Macau that two scholars devoted a study to the subject.
Verhoeven turns out to be a member of the Jesus Seminar, a collection mostly of scholars devoted to reconstructing the historical Jesus, and much of what he has to say is shrewd and learned.
Yugur studies have seen an upswing in the past 10 years, with a large number of scholars devoted to gathering, researching and preserving traditional Yugur culture, including many scholars, researchers and even nomads belonging to this ethnicity.
Because jihad is a pillar of Islam, and because in Islam God's word takes legal form, the classical scholars devoted considerable care to identifying the laws of jihad.
Aside from a clutch of influential scholars devoted to finding pragmatic solutions to China's vast economic and social problems, intellectuals often have to choose between quiet irrelevance and public condemnation.
There, in the communities of Béziers, Carcassonne, Narbonne, Lunel, Montpellier, Arles, and Marseilles, Jewish scholars devoted themselves to the translation and dissemination of philosophical texts and ideas.
In the Meiji period (1868 1912), when Japan reopened itself to the world after more than two centuries of national isolation, a generation of scholars devoted themselves to importing Western academic fields of inquiry, including "philosophy".
(The author's clothing has been the object of many previous studies; one scholar, Lorenza Foschini, devoted an entire book_—"Proust's Overcoat"—to another of his frocks).
