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- 1. the English language from c. 1150 to c. 1470.
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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)
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.
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Middle English Dictionary. Link: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/. Project Status: Complete. Welcome to the electronic Middle English Dictionary. The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as “the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America.”.
This resource is of particular relevance to lexicographers and language scholars, but is moreover a key reference work for all scholars in medieval studies. The Dictionary entries provide head words, variant spellings, etymology, definition, and illustrative quotations with links to the HyperBibliography.
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.
