| Acknowledgements |
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| Series Preface |
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| Introduction |
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1 Lexicography in the Early Modern English Period: The Manuscript Record |
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2 Motives behind 17th Century Lexicography: A Comparison between German and English Dictionaries of that Time |
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3 The Early Modern English tradition of `hard words' and the Vindex anglicus (1644) |
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4 Defining English: Authenticity and Standardization in Seventeenth-Century Dictionaries |
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41 | (18) |
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5 Dictionary English and the Female Tongue |
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6 The Beginnings of English Lexicography |
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7 The Beginning: English Dictionaries of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century |
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141 | (40) |
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PART III INDIVIDUAL DICTIONARIES |
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8 What were Robert Cawdrey's Hard Words? Learned Terms and A Table Alphabeticall (1604) |
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181 | (8) |
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9 Women and the Godly Art of Rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan Dictionary |
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189 | (16) |
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10 The Historical Significance of Cockeram's Treatment of Verbs of High Frequency |
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205 | (12) |
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11 The Working Methods of Thomas Blount |
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217 | (4) |
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12 Authenticating the Vocabulary: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Lexicographical Practice |
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221 | (18) |
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13 Thomas Dawks's The Complete English-Man (1685): A Newly-Discovered Seventeenth Century Dictionary? |
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239 | (12) |
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PART IV ENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORICAL AND SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH |
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14 Captain John Smith's Sea Grammar and its Debt to Sir Henry Mainwaring's Seaman's Dictionary |
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251 | (10) |
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15 `New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of his Times (1658-1691) |
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261 | (40) |
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16 Theory Meets Empiricism: English Lexis in John Wilkins' Philosophical Language and the Role of William Lloyd |
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301 | (22) |
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17 A Physical Dictionary (1657): The First English Medical Dictionary |
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323 | (20) |
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PART V BILINGUAL AND POLYGLOT DICTIONARIES |
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18 The Lexicography of the Learned Languages in Seventeenth-Century England |
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343 | (22) |
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19 Wordlists of Exotic Languages in Seventeenth-Century England |
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365 | (12) |
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20 The French-English Dictionarie of Cotgrave (1611) |
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377 | (10) |
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387 | (10) |
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22 John Minsheu: Scholar or Charlatan? |
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397 | (14) |
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23 Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts |
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411 | (18) |
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24 The Sources of the First Dutch and English Dictionary |
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429 | (8) |
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25 The First English-Danish Dictionary: Friderik Bolling's Engelske dictionarium (1678) |
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437 | (16) |
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26 Miege and the Development of the English Dictionary |
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453 | (10) |
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27 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Abel Boyer's Innovations in English-French Lexicography |
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| Index |
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