Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Author: Susan Rennie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191623695

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
Author: Michelle D. Brock
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021
Genre: Clergy
ISBN: 1783276193

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
Author: Steven J. Reid
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004330739

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to examine a wide variety of aspects of Scottish Latin culture, including: Scottish participation in Latinate humanist circles across Europe, particularly in France and England; scientific, philosophical and didactic Latin culture in Scotland prior to the Scientific Revolution; and the reception of classical literature in Scotland, particularly Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. It also features in-depth examinations and translated excerpts of several key works, including the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637) and The Muses' Welcome (Edinburgh, 1618). Contributors are: Alexander Broadie, Robert Cummings, Alexander Farquhar, Roger Green, L.B.T. Houghton, Miles Kerr-Peterson, Ralph McLean, David McOmish, Gesine Manuwald, William Poole, and Steven J. Reid.