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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
In eighteenth-century Europe, the dictionary became a genre of considerable importance in society, culture, and commerce. It was admired for
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The first medieval dictionary, Elementarium doctrinae rudimentum (c.1053), was derived from preceding *glossaries and *encyclopedias.
German literature
The model of a Renaissance revival of the forms and ideals of classical literature is of limited usefulness in understanding German literature of the early modern period. The humanist tradition ...
Italian
The formation of the Italian language was part of the more general process of evolution that led from Latin to the multiplicity of the Romance languages. In this process, the ...
Jacques-Georges de Chauffepié
(1702–1786), pastor, Christian apologist, and author of a biographical dictionary, intended to supplement Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique. Jacques-Georges de Chauffepié (or Chaufepié) was ...
linguistics, medieval
Contemporary linguistics finds its closest medieval analogues in the teaching of the grammatici. The copying and circulation of Latin grammars played an instrumental role in the Christianization of ...
Niccolò Perotti
(1429–80),Italian humanist and grammarian, born in Sassaferato and educated by Vittorino da Feltre in Mantua (1445–6) and then by Guarino da Verona (1447). He entered the service of Cardinal ...
philology, Romance
Romance philology studies texts (literary, legal, scientific, religious, philosophical, and so forth) written in vernacular languages and dialects that evolved from the Latin spoken in territories ...
