Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer
Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer
- ISBN 13:
9780199683192
- ISBN 10:
0199683190
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 03/28/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The author opens with an account of Elyot's life and publications. Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) was a humanist scholar and intellectual ally of Sir Thomas More. He was employed by Thomas Cromwell in diplomatic and official capacities that did more to impoverish than enrich him, and he sought to increase his income with writing. His treatise on moral philosophy, The Boke named the Governour, was published in 1531 and dedicated to Henry VIII. His popular treatise on medicine, The Castell of Helth, went through seventeen editions.
Professor Stein then considers how Elyot set about compiling this great bilingual dictionary. She looks at his guiding principles and organization, and the authors and texts he used as sources. She examines the book's importance for the historical study of English, noting the lexical regionalisms and items of vulgar usage in the Promptorium parvulorum and the dictionaries of Palsgrave and Elyot. She then describes Elyot's linking of lemma and gloss, and use of generic reference points. She explains how Elyot translated, paraphrased and defined the Latin headwords and compares his practice with his predecessors. Professor Stein ends with a detailed assessment of Elyot's impact on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dictionaries and his place in Renaissance lexicography. Her exploration of the work of an outstanding sixteenth-century scholar will interest historians of the English language, lexicography, and the intellectual climate of Tudor England.