Medieval Latin Dictionary from British Sources

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The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is a unique work of historical reference, based upon the largestcorpus of named authors and the largest archive of literary, archival, and epigraphic sources anywhere in Europe. Itcovers not only the usages of the Classical Latin and Late Latin periods (from the beginnings to AD 200 and 200-600),but the entire period of the Middle Ages: the 1100 years from the sixth century to the sixteenth. It records in the standardformat of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Latin Dictionary head-words, etymologies, definitions, andquotations that illustrate usage, documenting a complete range from high literary to archival and even demotic registers,incorporating words borrowed from a uniquely wide variety of other languages / Greek, Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, andRomance. As the Dictionary often illustrates use in Latin of vernacular words hundreds of years before their recorded usein vernacular texts, the work is essential to the study of medieval and modern languages and literatures as well as thelong history of Latin. Even before its completion the Dictionary has established itself as pre-eminent, with widelyacknowledged usefulness to students of language, literature, history, philosophy, genealogy, music, art and architecture,numismatics, onomastics, topography, and to editors and translators of texts.Its completion and online availability by 2014 by a combination of AHRC and Packard Humanities Institute funding will be an achievement ofinternational importance. The Dictionary will be able to cover specific British vocabularies not dealt with in other editions.It will serve as primary and essential reference volume to the academy.