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| Â | The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) |
 | | With grateful acknowledgement to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant no: 410-94-1088) and to the Department of English, University of Toronto | | | I presented this tentative research finding at the CCHWP4 conference in Toronto on October 8-9, 1993, sponsored by SSHRC. | | | At his death in 1616, the only lexicons serving English were Edmund Coote's brief list of 1,368 words in his English Schoolmaster (1596) and Robert Cawdrey's list of 2,543 hard words in his Table Alphabeticall (1604). |
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| Â | Encyclopedia: Early English |
| | Prominent among these peoples in the movement that German historians term the V lkerwanderung were non-Germanic Huns and Avars and Magyars with the large number of Germanic and later Slavic peoples. | | | This is known the as the 3 period view of history. | | | Most scholars who work in 15th century Italian history, for instance, consider themselves Renaissance or Early Modern historians, while anyone working on England in the early 15th century is considered a medievalist. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Early-English
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| Â | Professor translates Koran into modern English - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - August 14, 2004 |
| | It's hard to overstate the importance of the Koran, which defines the belief and conduct of 1 billion Muslims, including a growing number of immigrants in English-speaking nations. | | | Haleem has put his lifelong immersion in the Koran and the Arabic language to good use the past seven years, working on a new Koran translation in English that appeared last month: "The Quran" (Oxford University Press). | | | This 2002 book is costly because it includes both the Arabic and English texts, but an inexpensive paperback edition was issued this year. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040813-113754-1344r.htm
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| Â | Early English Musick: A Select Bibliography |
| | Flynn, J. E., A Reconsideration of the Mulliner Book (British Library Add. | | | Angelo, S., Public Spectacle in Early Tudor Policy, 1485-1547, | | | _____, Early English Chamber Music from the Middle Ages to Purcell (1946; rev. 1982) |
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http://www.exlibris.org/eem/eem_biblio.html
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| Â | HEL Website |
| | A Conference to be held at UCLA, March 2002 | | | Welcome to the History of the English Language (HEL) Home Page. | | | Files of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States, VGA font-loader that allows people to see LAMSAS phonetic symbols (at the DOS level, or in a DOS window), and a program for Macintosh that plots maps onscreen.... |
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http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
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| Â | Literary Encyclopedia: Early English Bible Translations |
| | First, he prefaced his lawcode with a substantial translated extract from the Old Testament Book of Exodus, dealing with law; it was a way of giving his own laws biblcal authority. | | | There is no evidence that the Old English Bible, such as it was, was aimed at the sorts of ordinary people who were the target of fourteenth-century campaigners for vernacular translation. | | | Alfred the Great (871-99), a tireless promoter of Christian literature in English, was responsible for the first detached continuous biblical translations of which we have clear evidence. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1270
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| Â | A History of the English Language |
| | English is in the Germanic group of languages. | | | English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. | | | Spanish has also been great influence on American English. |
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http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm
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| Â | Early English Sonnets |
| | He is more widely known for his other lyrics but wrote 32 sonnets in the form that has come to be known as the Petrarchan sonnet. | | | There has been debate as to whether Wyatt's iambic pentameter was ingeniously varied or simply clumsy. | | | English poets of almost every era have followed and adapted the sonnet to produce some of their best and worst work. |
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http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/early.htm
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| Â | Sample Chapter for Scodel, J.: Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature. |
| | Spurning the English church's self-description as the via media, however defined, Donne draws on ancient and Renaissance skepticism to propose a new mean of inquiry between rash acceptance and rejection of opposed Christian churches. | | | Yet, as his admonition suggests, the mean was not only a cultural commonplace but also a source of controversy. | | | Yet I take seriously the claim for modernity in the term "early modern" and see this book as a partial genealogy of tensions and ambivalences within contemporary culture--necessarily partial, because so much has intervened between then and now. |
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http://www.pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i7270.html
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| Â | Records of Early English Drama (REED) |
| | Further information can be found on the ET/REED home page, www.earlytheatre.ca. | | | Enquiries about back issues of the Newsletter should be sent to | | | Although the project is based at Victoria University in the University of Toronto (an institution renowned for its scholarship in medieval and early modern culture), REED's internal governance is provided by an Executive Board of senior scholars in early drama and related fields. |
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html
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| Â | Renaissance Texts |
| | The most important is the collection of AUTHORS, WORKS, PROJECTS on the RENAISSANCE PAGE in the English section of Voice of the Shuttle. | | | It is intended as an aid for my courses in Renaissance Literature in the English Department at Towson State University. | | | The English Renaissance is treated as beginning with the period of Thomas More and John Colet, and ending around the generation of Milton--that is, ca. |
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http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/bookmark/rentext.html
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| Â | Early English Gothic architecture in England |
| | Early in the 13th century windows were primarily of a simple, untraceried (lancet) design, either single or grouped together. | | | The most complete example of Early English is without a doubt to be seen at Salisbury Cathedral. | | | Early English emphasizes height, as if the builders were reaching for the sky. |
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http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/early-english.htm
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| Â | Old English Pages |
| | Part of ORB, the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. | | | Hundreds of thousands of accesses since July 1, 1995 [Last updated December 30, 2000] | | | Corpus of Early Medieval Coins (with images) at the Fitzwilliam Museum |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html
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| Â | Introducing Early Modern English Documents |
| | The Pater Noster, the Creed, and the commandments of God in English, with many other godly lessons, right necessary for youth and all other to learn and to know, according to the commandment and injunctions given by the authority of the king's highness through this his realm | | | A Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the usurper and pretensed Queen of England | | | Early Stuart editors: Glenn Burgess, University of Hull, UK ; Jean-Christophe Mayer, Lecturer, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier |
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http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/MEMED/
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| Â | Early Television Foundation |
| | Darryl Hock is making his multistandard converter available to collectors. | | | This website contains other information on early television | | | The Early Television Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of television receiving and camera equipment from the early days of television. |
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http://www.earlytelevision.org/
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| Â | BBC - Antiques - Collectors guides - Early English pottery |
| | Love it or hate it, the naivety of early English pottery leaves few indifferent to its charms and there are enough smitten collectors to make many of the rarest pieces extremely valuable. | | | Below are six types of pottery made before c.1770 (for post-1770, see Later English pottery) as well as pointers on which pieces you can expect to see and which are most sought after. | | | During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, English pottery underwent a period of rapid development and an enormously varied range of wares and decorative techniques appeared. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/collectors_guides/potteryporcelain_earlyenglishpottery.shtml
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| Â | Early English Newspapers: The British Library Newspaper Library |
| | Further details of the early English newspapers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford can also be found in: | | | Early English Newspapers: Bibliography and Guide to the Microfilm Collection, compiled by Susan M. Cox and Janice L. Budeit (Woodbridge, CT and Reading: Research Publications, 1983). | | | Readers need only to place an order in the usual way, however, listing titles and years required, to enable staff to retrieve the material they wish to consult. |
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http://www.bl.uk/collections/earlynewspapers.html
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| Â | THE ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE |
| | Certain categories of material have, however, as a general rule been excluded: | | | The database is made available to members of VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia) -- a consortium consisting of 39 publicly supported colleges and universities in Virginia. | | | Overall the database contains over 165,000 poems which have been drawn from about 4,500 separate printed sources. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/epd.html
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| Â | University of Virginia -- Michigan Early Modern English Materials |
| | Corresponding print and microform publications exist for these materials. | | | The main body of entries (36,000 modal verbs) can be found in: Michigan early modern English materials, Richard W. Bailey, James W. Downer, Jay L. Robinson, with Patricia V. Lehman. | | | University of Virginia -- Michigan Early Modern English Materials |
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http://etext.virginia.edu/memem.query.html
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| Â | Encyclopedia of Organ Stops |
| | Since then, several copies have been made by English voicers. | | | This title was first adopted by the author to mark the successful reproduction of the old XVIIth century diapasons in his organ at St. Peter's Mission, Uxbridge. | | | contains an early English diapason (labelled “small open diapason”). |
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http://www.organstops.org/e/EarlyEnglishDiapason.html
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| Â | Canadian literature, English -> Early Canadian Writing on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | Although Canadian writing began as an imitative colonial literature, it has steadily developed its own national characteristics. | | | Canadian literature, English -> Early Canadian Writing on Encyclopedia.com 2002 | | | Encyclopedia.com is a service of HighBeam™ Research, Inc. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Canad-litEng_EarlyCanadianWriting.asp
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| Â | Links to Early Modern Humanities SitesAbout Renascence Editions: |
| | Sites that have been included in this list are under consideration to receive this award. | | | Surfing for Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature on the Web | | | The logo shown below will be made available to those deemed have earned this distinction, beginning in fall of 1998. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/links.html
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| Â | Corpus of M.E. Prose and Verse |
| | A new and easy-to-use way to select individual works or groups of works in the collection for searching | | | Proximity Searches : Find the co-occurrence of two or three words or phrases | | | Try out the Book-Bagged Corpus of Middle English! |
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http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/
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| Â | English Online Resources -- Electronic Text Center |
| | 1,600 of these Modern English titles now available also as ebooks for the Microsoft Reader! | | | : 886 volumes of early American fiction (1789-1875) by 136 authors, including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Brockden Brown, and Lydia Maria Child. | | | Including The Shakespeare First Folio and various other editions and adaptions of Shakespeare ( many publicly-accessible works); includes 2,272 color digital facsimiles. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html
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| Â | Text Details for York 1: Introduction The Records - Records of Early English Drama |
| | University of Toronto - Records of Early English Drama at University of Toronto | | | Text Details for York 1: Introduction The Records - Records of Early English Drama | | | York 1: Introduction The Records - Records of Early English Drama |
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http://www.archive.org/texts/texts-details-db.php?collection=toronto&collectionid=yorkREED01johnuoft&from=thisJustIn
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| Â | Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts Home |
| | Items in the Archive may be shared in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. | | | Series B serves for publication of reference materials pertinent to the study of medieval English and Norse manuscripts and texts. | | | We expect in the short run to publish our texts exclusively on CD-ROM disks, though eventually, depending upon developments in electronic textery, we may make use of on-line publication. |
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seenet/home.html
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| Â | Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections - Marketing Site |
| | Use this site to discover how Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections can transform study, teaching and scholarly research. | | | Copyright © 1996-2004 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. | | | Authoritative full-text databases offering uniquely comprehensive coverage of poetry, drama and prose in English. |
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http://eaf.chadwyck.com/
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| Â | Literature Online - Marketing Site |
| | With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. | | | Use our interactive demo to find out more about the unique content and features of Literature Online. | | | RESOURCES FOR USERS : TEACHING & RESEARCH LIBRARIANS STUDENTS |
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http://lion.chadwyck.com/
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| Â | Inkhorn Terms and Other Early Modern English Borrowings |
| | Inkhorn Terms and Other Early Modern English Borrowings | | | Gk.) GREEK ability atmosphere acme agile autograph anonymous apropriate chaos catastrophe autograph climax criterion capsule crisis democracy dedicate dogma encyclopedia dignity emphasis ostracize education enthusiasm phenomena exist epitome thermometer extinguish pathetic tonic hereditary scheme harass system maturity skeleton meditate tactics penetrate reciprocal scientific strenuous REJECTED INKHORN TERMS deruncinate - `to weed' (cf. | | | INKHORN TERMS AND OTHER EARLY MODERN ENGLISH BORROWINGS |
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http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/inkhorn.html
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