Word Studies in the Renaissance

Gabriele Stein was Professor of English Language at the University of Heidelberg until 2006, and since then has been at University College London as a Research Associate of the English Department. She was President of the European Association for Lexicography from 1983-1986, and since 1999 has been a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist (OUP 1997), Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer (OUP 2014), A Usage Dictionary English-German & German-English (de Gruyter 2013), and, co-authored with Randolph Quirk, English in Use (Longman 1990)

• Introduction1: Typography in sixteenth-century English dictionaries2: Claudius Hollyband: The author behind the lexicographer3: On the sources of Huloets Dictionarie (1572)4: Early polyglot word lists: Investigating their relationship5: Hadrianus Junius' Nomenclator reconsidered6: John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist7: John Palsgrave's description of French word-formation8: Peter Levins' description of word-formation (1570)ReferencesIndex

Gabriele Stein's Word Studies in the Renaissance sheds light on the kinds of reference works to which translators might have turned, and presents a series of analyses of Tudor lexicography...While corralling a potentially daunting level of detail for non-specialists, Stein's volume thus offers a valuable window onto another facet of historically contingent intellectual exchange.