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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
involving the vernacular were chiefly Latin-Italian until, in the 16th c., the flourishing of vernacular literature and printing encouraged the
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
[See also Encylopedias].
1. Medieval and Renaissance
The origins of French lexicography lie in bilingual French–Latin glossaries of the
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
of Irish developed from early glossaries such as Sanas Chormaic, c.
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The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
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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 Encyclopedia of British Literature
Texts no doubt were glossed as soon as English began to be written with the Roman alphabet, which means perhaps
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World Encyclopedia
Book that lists in alphabetical order, words and their definitions. A dictionary may be general or subject oriented. In the
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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.
