This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The ...tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.
Of Honor and Honoring Pennock, Robert T
American scientist,
05/2022, Volume:
110, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Pennock talks about his term as president of Sigma Xi. During his term, he often had occasion to explain what the Society is and what it does. He speaks of the Society's deep historical roots and its ...unique mission of recognizing and advancing scientific excellence and integrity. He describes its 100 years of providing Grants in Aid of Research to science students; its mentoring, education, and ethics activities; and its Distinguished Lectureships, Science Cafes, and other public outreach programs. And he always mentions American Scientist, which continues to set the standard for science magazines.
Labeling people Staum, Martin S
Labeling people,
2003, 20030820, 2003-08-20, 20030101, Volume:
36
eBook
While previous studies have contrasted the relative optimism of middle-class social scientists before 1848 with a later period of concern for national decline and racial degeneration, Staum ...demonstrates that the earlier learned societies were also fearful of turmoil at home and interested in adventure abroad. Both geographers and ethnologists created concepts of fundamental "racial" inequality that prefigured the imperialist "associationist" discourse of the Third Republic, believing that European tutelage would guide "civilizable" peoples, and providing an open invitation to dominate and exploit the "uncivilizable."
The commonwealth of learning -- Monastery and school -- The medieval monastic paradox -- Learning in the early middle ages -- The patronage of medieval learning -- The learned turn of the high middle ...ages -- University and academy -- The translation movements of Islamic learning -- The medieval universities of Oxford and Paris -- Humanist revival -- Learned academies and societies -- Early modern Oxford and Cambridge -- Locke and property -- A theory of property -- An act for the encouragement of learning.
