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 is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta.

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ISBN 13	9780521886741
ISBN 10	0521886740
Title	Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
Author	John Considine
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2008-03-27
Number of pages	408
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