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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      27 March 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511485985
      9780521886741
      9780521178457
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485985
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 408 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 408 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History, European and World Literature: General Interest, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    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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    Review of the hardback:'All in all, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe is an exceptionally erudite, thorough and trustworthy book, written by a learned scholar, indisputably of great value and use for philologists, book historians and historical bibliographers.'

    Source: Lexikos

    Review of the hardback:'John Considine's book is admirably erudite and informative.'

    Giulio Lepschy - University College London

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