Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

by John Considine

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198832281
• ISBN13: 9780198832287
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"