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Zusatztext This excellent Book follows on from and complements John Considines two earlier books on European dictionaries This third volume meets the high standards set by its predecessors ... The obscurity of some of the languages discussed under lines the breadth of Considines treatment: they include Arin, Chuvash, Crimean Gothic, Dragwa, Lak, and Mordvin ... Considine is well versed in the national, political, social, and religious contexts of the books he discusses, and uses his knowledge both to place specific dictionaries and to make interesting comparisons between them. One can almost imagine a history of Europe in the period written through the history of the dictionaries. Informationen zum Autor John Considine teaches English at the University of Alberta, and contributes as a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, of which he was formerly an assistant editor. His books include Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (2008), Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800 (2014), and the edited volume Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: The Seventeenth Century (2012). He has also written on etymology, book history, and early modern literature. He is at present writing a new history of dictionaries in the British Isles from 1500 to 1800, and editing the Cambridge World History of Lexicography. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Klappentext This book tells the story of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. It explores not just the languages and the wordlists themselves, but also the lives of those who created them and their motivations. Zusammenfassung This book tells the story of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. It explores not just the languages and the wordlists themselves, but also the lives of those who created them and their motivations....
