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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'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Historical linguistics --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Lexicography --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Learned institutions and societies --- Academies (Learned societies) --- Scholarly societies --- Books of knowledge --- Cyclopedias --- Dictionaries --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English --- Knowledge, Books of --- Subject dictionaries --- History --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Societies --- Learning and scholarship --- Reference books --- Learned societies --- Lexicography - Europe - History - 17th century --- Lexicography - Europe - History - 18th century --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries - Europe - History and criticism --- Learned institutions and societies - Europe - History - 17th century --- Learned institutions and societies - Europe - History - 18th century --- History and criticism.

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'Small Dictionaries and Curiosity' tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of the lower Volga. The book gives an account of about 90 of these dictionaries and wordlists, some of them single-page jottings and some of them full-sized printed books, paying attention to their content and their physical form alike. It explores the kinds of curiosity and imagination by which their makers were moved: the lover of all languages hearing new voices in an inn; the speaker of a dying language recording his linguistic memories; the patriot deploying his lexicographical findings in the service of an emerging nation. It offers an encounter with the diverse voices of the entirety of post-medieval Europe, turning away from the people of the courts and universities whose language was documented in big dictionaries to listen to people who did not speak the languages of power: the people of remote places and dying communities; the illiterate poor, settled or homeless; migrants from the edges of Europe and beyond.

Lexicography --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Books of knowledge --- Cyclopedias --- Dictionaries --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English --- Knowledge, Books of --- Subject dictionaries --- Reference books --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Lexicology. Semantics --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe --- Lexicography - Europe - History

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Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day. The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French-English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry C...

Lexicography --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries. --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Books of knowledge --- Cyclopedias --- Dictionaries --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English --- Knowledge, Books of --- Subject dictionaries --- Reference books --- History.

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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'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.

Lexicography --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Learned institutions and societies --- Academies (Learned societies) --- Learned societies --- Scholarly societies --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Books of knowledge --- Cyclopedias --- Dictionaries --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English --- Knowledge, Books of --- Subject dictionaries --- Reference books --- History --- History and criticism.

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