A comprehensive account of dictionaries during a key period in their development, when they were compiled in academies across Europe.

This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to gl

"This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to g

How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge

This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the many ways in which dictionaries have stimulated the imaginations of modern and contempor