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Christopher
Corèdon & Ann Williams.
A
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases.
Cambridge:
D.
S. Brewer, 2004.
ISBN
1843840235.
Hardback.
318pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £25.00/$39.95
An
interest in the
middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a
word
or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This
dictionary
is intended to put an end to all that - though such a claim is
inevitably
rash. However, it has been designed in the hope that it will be of real
help to non-academic readers, and in some cases maybe even to
specialists.
The
dictionary
contains some 3,400 terms as headwords, ranging from the legal and
ecclesiastic
to the more humdrum words of daily life. Latin was the language of the
church, law and government, and many Latin terms illustrated here are
frequently
found in modern books of history of the period; similarly, the precise
meaning of Old English and Middle English terms may elude today's
reader:
this dictionary endeavours to provide clarity. In addition to
definition,
etymologies of many words are given, in the belief that knowing the
origin
and evolution of a word gives a better understanding. There are also
examples
of medieval terms and phrases still in use today, a further aid to
clarifying
meaning.
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