PLANT NAMES OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND by Tony Hunt ( 9780859912730 )

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PLANT NAMES OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

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0859912736

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9780859912730

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BOYDELL & BREWER LTD

Pub. date:

2 March, 1989

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390

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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

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`...compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship...' NOTES AND QUERIESThe first reference work on the botanical language of the English middle ages to appear in print. 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.

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D.S. Brewer

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