Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage
- Author / Editor
- Considine, John.
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage
- Published
- Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 393 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the making of English, German, Latin, and Greek dictionaries from 1500 to 1650, including the contributions of Franciscus Junius (among others). Discusses the unpublished manuscript of Junius's glossary to Chaucer and the place of Chaucer's lexicon in Junius's "Etymologicum anglicanum."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion