John Considine
Ashgate
Hardback
400
From glosses that give evidence of the late 7th-century and early 8th-century teachings of Theodore and Hadrian in Canterbury to the English-Latin and Latin-English dictionaries of the early 15th century this volume shows the great range of activity by anonymous lexicographers in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. It includes among many others articles on glosses to important authors such as Aldhelm on specific Anglo-Saxon glossaries and their sources and inter-relationships on the use of glosses and glossed manuscripts in the teaching of Latin on the tremulous hand of Worcester and on subject-oriented vocabularies such as collections of plant names and animal sounds Anglo-Saxon legal terms and guides to French conversation.
Ashgate
Hardback
400
From glosses that give evidence of the late 7th-century and early 8th-century teachings of Theodore and Hadrian in Canterbury to the English-Latin and Latin-English dictionaries of the early 15th century this volume shows the great range of activity by anonymous lexicographers in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. It includes among many others articles on glosses to important authors such as Aldhelm on specific Anglo-Saxon glossaries and their sources and inter-relationships on the use of glosses and glossed manuscripts in the teaching of Latin on the tremulous hand of Worcester and on subject-oriented vocabularies such as collections of plant names and animal sounds Anglo-Saxon legal terms and guides to French conversation.