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Small dictionaries and curiosity. Lexicography and fieldwork in post-medieval Europe

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Small dictionaries and curiosity. Lexicography and fieldwork in post-medieval Europe

I Curiosity Western lexicographers in the lands of the Mongols Curiosity and lexicography from Petrarch to Leibniz The history of lexicography and the history of curiosity II The long sixteenth century The first curiosity-driven wordlists: Rotwelsch The broadening tradition: Wordlists of other cryptolects Gergo Jargon or argot Cant The curiosity-driven lexicography of a whole language: Romani Weakly codified languages and lexicography in the sixteenth century Curiosity-driven lexicography in the sixteenth century Basque Croatian Modern Greek Irish, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian Russian Turkish Coda: Crimean Gothic III The long seventeenth century Languages and regional varieties Natural history and lexicography: John Ray and his friends Ray’s Collection of English Words Ray’s German contemporaries and successors Edward Lhuyd: The making of a lexicographer Edward Lhuyd, travelling lexicographer Edward Lhuyd’s Glossography IV The long eighteenth century Polyglot collections from Gessner to Leibniz Witsen, Leibniz, and the turn to Inner Eurasia Strahlenberg and the lexicography of Inner Eurasia Early wordlists of Scandinavian regionalisms Early wordlists of Finnish and Sami Johan Ihre and Swedish lexicography Dying languages Old Prussian and Polabian Cornish and Manx V Into the nineteenth century Dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic in the century of Ossian Bardic dictionaries: Faroese, Serbian, and Breton Lexicography and national epic in Finland Bibliography

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