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Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

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[miriamson07]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

Hello, I’d like to ask something that is relevant to this question. I found the evidence for answer choice C in the last paragraph: “no modern classist is trained to deal with the range of problems posed by a difficult piece of late Renaissance science; few students of English intellectual history are trained to read the sort of Latin in which such works were written.”

I then tried to identify who the “modern classists” and the “students of English intellectual history” are. It seems that the former group are the “language specialists” mentioned in paragraph 1, and the latter group is the “intellectual historians” mentioned at the beginning of Paragraph 2. I noticed something very confusing, however — at the end of paragraph 1, the former group seems to be referred to as “intellectual historians” in line 23.

I wonder if my interpretation was incorrect. If it was not, I wonder why the passage would use “intellectual historians” to describe both groups. Is it possible for the term to be used so broadly? That would feel annoyingly confusing to me!

Thanks so much.

[Adam Tyson]

As I understand the passage, miriamson07, the intellectual historians are the people who study law, theology, science, and medicine, while the language specialists are just that - they study things written in Latin. The intellectual historians mostly study things written in English, including those poems that the language specialists have translated, but they aren't able to read the Latin works that the language specialists didn't translate. And those language specialists don't really understand the science written in Latin, nor do they translate the law and theology stuff.

So, the reference at the end of the first paragraph is to the intellectual historians who study law, science, etc., and not to the language specialists. They are unable to study those things in Latin because they don't understand Latin, and the people who do understand Latin haven't translated those things.