Academy dictionaries 1600-1800 /
"This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dic...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The beginnings of the academy tradition: the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca
- 3. The making of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, and its seventeenth-century rivals
- 4. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise from its publication to the end of the eighteenth century
- 5. The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid eighteenth century
- 6. The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750: England, Brandenburg/Prussia, and Spain
- 7. Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung
- 8. The continuing academy tradition from 1751 to 1800: the United Provinces, Russia, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden
- 9. Afterword: the year 1800 as a turning point.