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Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (Hardcover, New)
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Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (Hardcover, New)
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Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538,
became the leading work of its kind in England. Gabriele Stein
describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and
workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later
influence. The author opens with an account of Elyots life and
publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist
scholar and intellectual friend of Sir Thomas More. He was employed
by Thomas Cromwell in diplomatic and official capacities that did
more to impoverish than enrich him, and he sought to increase his
income with writing. His treatise on moral philosophy, The Boke
named the Governour, was published in 1531, and dedicated to Henry
VIII. His popular treatise on medicine, The Castell of Helth,
published some years later, went through seventeen editions.
Professor Stein then considers how and why Elyot decided to compile
a Latin-English dictionary. She looks at the guiding principles,
the organization he devised, and the authors and texts he used as
sources. She examines the books importance for the historical study
of English, noting the lexical regionalisms and items of vulgar
usage in the Promptuorum parvulorum and the dictionaries of
Palsgrave and Elyot before discussing Elyots linking of lemma and
gloss, and use of generic reference points. She explains how Elyot
translated and defined the Latin headwords and compares his
practice with his predecessors. The author ends with a detailed
assessment of Elyots impact on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
dictionaries and his place in Renaissance lexicography. Her
exploration of the work of an outstanding sixteenth-century scholar
will interest historians of the English language, lexicography, and
the intellectual climate of Tudor England.
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