Alan Hindley, A. Hindley, Frederick W. Langley

Old French-English Dictionary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first Old French-English dictionary of its kind to provide a comprehensive reference tool for a broad range of English-speaking users. In the form of a compendious but manageable single volume, it is designed for both the general and specialist reader of Old French texts including students, scholars, philologists and historians. The dictionary is based on a large and varied number of texts up to ca. 1350, starting from the 'classics' of medieval French literature and extending through all the genres: epic, romance, religious, moral, didactic and allegorical texts, lyric poetry, drama, humour and satire, as well as non-literary historical, political and legal documents. The aim has been to include a wide range of variant spellings as well as the main dialectal forms to help the anglophone user in particular. Detailed definitions and grammatical functions are provided, together with common phrases with their translations.

Table of contents:
Introduction; Dictionary entries.

This comprehensive, single-volume dictionary is designed for both the general and specialist reader of Old French texts. Its publication means that for the first time English-speaking students, scholars, philologists and historians can consult a work of reference based on a large number of medieval French texts representing all genres.

Comprehensive, single-volume Old French-English dictionary designed for a broad range of English-speaking users.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1117g
• ISBN-13: 9780521345644
• ISBN-10: 0521345642
• Artikelnr.: 20977694

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. From database to dictionary
2. The dictionary entries
3. How to use the dictionary
4. Conclusion
List of abbreviations
Select bibliography
The dictionary.