Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800

by John Considine

Book Overview

This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Acad mie fran oise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107415128
• ISBN13: 9781107415126
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"