Medieval History
A huge number of students ranging from linguists to those studying coins and family ancestry are benefiting from a 100 year project to compile the world?s most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin.
Work started on the unique Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources 50 years ago but experts began collecting material early in the 20th century.
Now the initiative is nearing completion and Professor Tobias Reinhardt, Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Oxford University is responsible for seeing it through.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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Medieval History
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project nears completion
A huge number of students ranging from linguists to those studying coins and family ancestry are benefiting from a 100 year project to compile the world?s most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin.
Work started on the unique Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources 50 years ago but experts began collecting material early in the 20th century.
Now the initiative is nearing completion and Professor Tobias Reinhardt, Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Oxford University is responsible for seeing it through.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- Old Books Hide Even Older Secrets From Middle Ages
The book before me is huge and heavy, bound, not in paper or cardboard, but with planks of solid oak, held together by thick cords. It looks like a prop from a fantasy film. It?s actually a Latin dictionary, published in the early 1700s. It?s normally...
- Henry Iii Fines Rolls Project Almost Complete
A unique project between scholars at three institutions, to translate and digitalise documents drawn up in the thirteenth century for Henry III, is nearing completion. The three year project by Canterbury Christ Church University, King?s College London,...
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The Romans learned it and more recently so did Harry Potter. The Latin language is gaining popularity and University of Toronto undergraduate classes are filled to the brim with keen Latin lovers. "We're running four sections of Latin 100 this year...
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