A01=Tony Hunt
Author_Tony Hunt
Botanical Language
Botany
Category=PST
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Lexicography
Medieval England
Medieval Medicine
Plant Names
Product details
- ISBN 9780859912730
- Weight: 742g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 1989
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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` 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
`...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 inprint. 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.
