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Medieval Latin Dictionary

Chairman: Dr J N Adams, FBA
General Editor: Dr D R Howlett
Assistant Editor: Mrs K Korn, Dr P O Piper, Dr S. Sneddon, Dr C White
Contact: david.howlett@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/dml.asp

Latin served for 1000 years as the principal medium of writing in the British Isles - the language of St Patrick and Bede, of Domesday Book and Magna Carta, of Anselm and Wyclyffe, Roger Bacon and Francis Bacon. The Dictionary both records the usage of Classical and Late Latin in this period, and charts the medieval developments of the language as revealed in a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources. It is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages in Britain from the sixth century to the sixteenth, and is of immeasurable value to all medievalists, as important for cultural history as it is for linguistics.