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Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World 1500-1800: Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries by John Considine, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World 1500-1800: Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries by John Considine, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World 1500-1800: Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries by John Considine, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From John Considine

Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World 1500-1800: Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries by John Considine, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers ofEnglish from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languagesthat gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, andculturally significant lexicographical output before. The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention torecords of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world. | Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World 1500-1800: Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries by John Considine, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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