Medieval History
For 32 years, Dr David Howlett has been scouring medieval Latin texts, picking out unusual words and compiling them in one of the world?s most extraordinary dictionaries.
But, if that sounds like a lifetime?s work, it?s just a fraction of the time spent by scholars on a monumental effort to record the definitions of every Latin word used in Britain for more than 1,000 years.
A century after the idea was first floated to the British Academy, experts are only now compiling definitions of words beginning with ?T? for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Click here to read this article from the Oxford Mail
See also Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project nears completion
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Medieval History
Latin dictionary is a lifetime career
For 32 years, Dr David Howlett has been scouring medieval Latin texts, picking out unusual words and compiling them in one of the world?s most extraordinary dictionaries.
But, if that sounds like a lifetime?s work, it?s just a fraction of the time spent by scholars on a monumental effort to record the definitions of every Latin word used in Britain for more than 1,000 years.
A century after the idea was first floated to the British Academy, experts are only now compiling definitions of words beginning with ?T? for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Click here to read this article from the Oxford Mail
See also Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources project nears completion
- 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...
- New Dictionary On Ancient Egyptian Language Completes 37-year Project
A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt ? including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the government ? has been completed by scholars at the...
- Google Translate Goes Latin
In news that will be welcomed by many medieval and ancient history scholars, Google Translate has added Latin to its list of languages that can be automatically translated to other languages. The website announced the news today in a post written in Latin,...
- Graecum-arabicum-latinum Encoded Corpus (galen©)* Usama Gad (heidelberg)
Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (GALEN©)*Usama Gad (Heidelberg) GALEN is a long-term project to produce the first comprehensive digital corpus of translations between Greek, Arabic and Latin. The project seeks not only to include the medieval...
- Making Sense: Constructing Meaning In Early English
MAKING SENSE: CONSTRUCTING MEANING IN EARLY ENGLISH edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan. Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 2007). xii, 138 pages. ISBN 978-0-88844-907-8...