Plant Names of Medieval England
Tony Hunt
`...compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship...' NOTES AND QUERIES
The first reference work on the botanical language of the English middle ages to appear in print. Covering approximately 1800 names, applied to some six hundred species, and including over five hundred names not recorded in the OED, it is an indispensable reference work and a comprehensive guide to the bibliography of the subject. Lexicologistswill find a wealth of new material. | |
DETAILS
390 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
10 digit ISBN: 0859912736
13 digit ISBN: 9780859912730
Binding: Hardback
First published: 02/Mar/1989
Price: 105.00 USD / 55.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Subject: History of Science & Medicine
BIC class: CTKB
STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 12/08/2008
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Reviews
` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES
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