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Middle English Dictionary. The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.
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Middle English. Dictionary. • Middle English Dictionary. • Corpus of Middle English prose and verse. • Concise Dictionary of Middle English (from 1150 to 1580) by Anthony Mayhew & Walter Skeat (1888) or text version. • Middle English dictionary (12 th -15 th century) by Francis Henry Stratmann & Henry Bradley (1891)
Middle English Dictionary. The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies. Go to the Middle English Dictionary. Bibliography.
Dictionary search types. A search of the entire entry will retrieve all entries containing the word or phrase, text, author, date, etc. (or a combination of these) you specify; search items could appear in any of the parts of the entry (form section, definition, quotation, notes, etc.).
In terms of ‘external’ history, Middle English is framed at its beginning by the after-effects of the Norman Conquest of 1066, and at its end by the arrival in Britain of printing (in 1476) and by the important social and cultural impacts of the English Reformation (from the 1530s onwards) and of the ideas of the continental Renaissance.
The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. It comprises roughly 15,000 pages with a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1175–1500, based on the analysis of over three million quotations from primary sources.
