branch of knowledge, discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

neoclassicism - revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation

classicism - a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"

romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

English - the discipline that studies the English language and literature

history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"

art history - the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

chronology - the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events

beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art

performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance

Occidentalism - the scholarly knowledge of Western cultures and languages and people

Oriental Studies, Orientalism - the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people

philosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

literary study - the humanistic study of literature

library science - the study of the principles and practices of library administration

philology, linguistics - the humanistic study of language and literature

musicology - the scholarly and scientific study of music

Sinology - the study of Chinese history and language and culture

stemmatics, stemmatology - the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladisitc analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"