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Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage

By John Considine

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0521886740, 9780521886741, 9780511395109
LCC
P327.45.E85 C66 2008
Open Library ID
OL10438509M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1772912 bytes)
Pages
408\409
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, published and used, has much to tell us about the language and the culture of the past. This monumental work of scholarship draws on published and archival material to survey a wide range of dictionaries of western European languages (including English, German, Latin and Greek) published between the early sixteenth and mid -seventeenth centuries. John Considine establishes a powerful model for the social and intellectual history of lexicography by examining dictionaries both as imaginative texts and as scholarly instruments. He tells the stories of national and individual heritage and identity that were created through the making of dictionaries in the early modern period. Far from dry, factual collections of words, dictionaries are creative works, shaping as well as recording early modern culture and intellectual history.

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