Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe

Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe by John Considine

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.

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' Lexikos
Review of the hardback: 'John Considine's book is admirably erudite and informative.' Giulio Lepschy, University College London

John Considine's four decade acting career in television and motion pictures included working relationships and close friendships with some of the giants of the business: e.g. George Stevens, Robert Altman, and Paulo Newman. A television writer of episodic shows and movies of the week, John also co-authored the Robert Altman film A Wedding, and received a British Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Perhaps his most celebrated role came on the daytime show, Another World in which he played the much hated 'billionaire-bastard', Reginald Love, again receiving a nomination his mother cringed at, The person most hated by daytime viewers. John and his wife of 28 years, Astrid, live in a picturesque Northwest seaport in the State of Washington, where John is now at work on his first novel, entitled, Canon Drive.

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ISBN 13	9780521178457
ISBN 10	0521178452
Title	Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
Author	John Considine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2011-03-03
Number of pages	408
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