The edition is preceded by a long introduction that provides a biographical study of Hickes, places him and his collaborators in their histori- cal, ecclesiastical, and intellectual context, chronicles the compilation and pub- lication of the Thesaurus, and discusses the importance of the work. [...] PUBLICATIONS OF THE DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH 4 A Chorus of Grammars The Correspondence of George Hickes and his Collaborators on the Thesaurus linguarum septentrionalium Edited by RICHARD L. HARRIS Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies The Publications of the Dictionary of Old English series is sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, whose support and encouragemen [...] The Introduction, with its anecdotal passages, is thus intended to convey a sense of the period and more specifically of the quality of those lives from which the philological endeavours of the times grew. [...] Junius 2 and 3, the Dic- tionarium Saxonicum, the remains of a project undertaken by Junius in the 1650s, following his return to the Continent.12 Shortly after Junius's death, John Fell, by then bishop of Oxford, began to encourage the publication of this lexicon of Old English, Old High German, Gothic, and 'Cimbrick,' or 'Runic,' what was regarded as the language of the runic inscriptions. [...] As a result partly of economic changes attendant upon Henry VIII's disso- lution of monasteries and seizure of church property and partly of his making himself secular head of the Church of England, Oxford University became con- servative England's intellectual, ecclesiastical, and even once its military stronghold.24 Oxford was the site of the burning of the three bishops in the reign of Queen Ma
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-146) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 430/.092
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- 20
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- 9781771100052 9780888449047
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- PE64.H35
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- Z48 1992eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvii, 491 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- List of Illustrations 12
- List of Abbreviations 13
- Preface 14
- Acknowledgments 18
- Introduction 24
- Bibliography 152
- Preface to the Letters 172
- The Letters 176
- Appendices 460
- Biographical Register 476
- Index 498
- A 498
- B 498
- C 500
- D 501
- E 501
- F 502
- G 502
- H 503
- I 505
- J 505
- K 505
- L 506
- M 506
- N 507
- O 508
- P 508
- Q 509
- R 509
- S 509
- T 511
- U 511
- V 512
- W 512
- Y 513
- Index of Manuscripts 514
- B 514
- C 514
- E 514
- G 514
- L 514
- N 515
- O 515
- P 516
- R 516
- S 516
- U 516
- W 516