Collected Papers on English Legal History

Collected Papers on English Legal History

Author: John Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 1908

ISBN-13: 131610219X

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Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited. Providing points of reference and foundations for further research, the papers cover the legal profession, the inns of court and chancery, legal education, legal institutions, legal literature, legal antiquities, public law and individual liberty, criminal justice, private law (including contract, tort and restitution) and legal history in general. An introduction traces the development of some of the research represented by the papers, and cross-references and new endnotes have been added. A full bibliography of the author's works is also included.


Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Author: Roderick McConchie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1351870289

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Laying the foundations for the first monolingual dictionaries of English, the sixteenth century in English lexicography is here shown to form a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the more recognisably modern dictionary incorporating synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard features. The articles collected here treat general lexicography and dictionaries in this period, their uses, and the state of research in this field. The volume also covers a fascinating and diverse collection of lexicographers, from the well known - John Palsgrave, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Elyot and John Florio - to those about whom next to nothing is known - Richard Howlet, John Baret and Peter Levens.


Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Author: John Considine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 1351870254

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Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.


Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research

Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research

Author: Julie Coleman

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3110912600

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This volume is a collection of papers from the 1st International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology at the University of Leicester in 2002. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scholars and academics from around the world working as scholars and editors on historical dictionaries or as practising lexicographers. The papers are, accordingly, arranged in two sections, reflecting the distinction between those individuals working on the historical development of dictionaries and those considering the lexicological problems and challenges facing the lexicographer in attempting to represent as fully and justly as possible historical forms of the English language.


Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley

Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley

Author: Peter J. Lucas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-05-22

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9004516395

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This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.


The Plowman's Tale

The Plowman's Tale

Author: Mary Rhinelander McCarl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-29

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0429627262

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Published in 1997: An edition of the literary virus that inserted itself into the Canterbury Tales and passed as authentic until the late 19th century. The virulent attack on the clergy made possible the Renaissance conception of Chaucer as a pre-Protestant English patriot.


Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers

Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers

Author: David A. Richardson

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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Essays on the remarkably diverse British writers referred to as "Renaissance authors" during the "Age of the Tudors." Writers who produced both prose and verse on virtually every subject in a variety of nondramatic genres.


Law Reporting in Britain

Law Reporting in Britain

Author: Chantal Stebbings

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1995-07-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1441155422

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Unlike the preceding volumes in this series, Law Reporting in Britain has a single, clear theme: the history and development of law reporting in Britain, from the earliest English reports of the second half of the 13th century to the beginnings of the reporting of planning decisions in the 20th century. Law reports are one of the main sources from which legal history is written. They record what lawyers and judges said in court in legal argument arising out of the facts of particular cases and how the judges decided the outcome of those cases. They thus provide vital evidence for what the lawyers and judges of the past believed to be the law of their day. They also demonstrate the ability of those lawyers and judges to shape and develop law through argument and decision-making in individual cases.