The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The essays in this volume review the state of research in this field during the per
Laying the foundations for the first monolingual dictionaries of English, the sixteenth century in English lexicography is here shown to form a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The articles collected here treat general lexicography and dictionaries in this period, their uses, and the state of research in this field. The volume also covers a fascinating and diverse collection of lexicographers, from the well known - John Palsgrave, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Elyot and John Florio - to those about whom next to nothing is known - Richard Howlet, John Baret and Peter Levens.
Contents: Introduction; Part I General: Narrative and persuasion in
early modern dictionaries and phrasebooks, John Considine; 'Dumb
significants' and early modern English definition, Ian Lancashire; Doctors
and dictionaries in 16th-century England, Roderick McConchie; English
specialized lexicography in the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Noel
Edward Osselton; Bilingual dictionaries in Shakespeare's day, D.T. Starnes;
The emerging role of English in the dictionaries of Renaissance Europe,
Gabriele Stein; A footnote on the inkhorn controversy, James Sledd; Language
helps for the Elizabethan tradesman, Louis B. Wright. Part II Latin-English:
Definitions and first person pronoun involvement in Thomas Elyot's
Dictionary, Gabriele Stein; The English of the 'Nomenclator', William A.
Craigie; A note on 16th-century vernacular English, Don Cameron Allen; Thomas
Thomas makes a dictionary, Allan Stevenson. Part III English-Latin: Richard
Huloet as a recorder of the English lexicon, Gabriele Stein; Women and their
world in Withal's Dictionary of 1553, Werner Hüllen; A note on the use of
Renaissance dictionaries, James Sledd; John Baret's 'diligent bees', H. Rocke
Robertson and Philip M. Teigen; Peter Levins' lexicographic approach, Roberta
Facchinetti; The 'hard words' of Levins' dictionary, Maurizio Gotti. Part IV
Familiar Vernacular: Law and early modern English lexicons, Ian Lancashire;
Bilingual lexicography in the Renaissance: Palsgrave's English-French lexicon
(1530), Douglas A. Kibbee; William Thomas: a forgotten clerk of the Privy
Council, E.R. Adair; Claudius Hollyband and the earliest French-English
dictionaries, Mark Eccles; Negotiating Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, David O.
Frantz. Part V Unfamiliar Vernacular: The earliest list of Russian Lapp
words, John Abercromby; Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English origins of
Algonkian linguistics, Vivian Salmon; Mark Ridley (1560-1624): an Elizabethan
Slavist, Gerald Stone; Russian medical terminology in Mark Ridley's
dictionary, Vera Fedorovna Konnova; The achievement of William Salesbury,
Glanmor Williams; Index.
Roderick McConchie is Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland
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