This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well beyond more general works... [Its] usefulness in the areas of history, literature, and the arts can justify its purchase by any library with patrons whose interests are set in the medieval period. RQ
BRADFORD B. BROUGHTON is Professor of Technical Communications at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
?Broughton, who in previous works has served as both editor and
translator, brings to this volume an extensive background of
research and publication in medieval literature. This dictionary,
15 years in the making, is the first of a two-volume set. Whereas
the second volume will focus on persons, places, and events, this
one is primarily concerned with concepts and terms.' However, some
persons and places are explained when necessary for understanding
of the concepts and terms. Definitions are arranged alphabetically,
and most entries contain cross-references to other entries. There
are two appendixes, the first a listing of feast days and saint's
days, the second providing topical access to entries, to help the
reader identify the entries that relate to topics such as heraldry,
castles, and weapons. An extensive bibliography and a lengthy index
complete the work.?-Choice
?Most historians find a work such as this valuable, but could not
have compiled it themselves; the fifteen years of research which
produced this book would have reduced most of us to babbling,
drooling, burnt-out cases, if not to catatonia. The effort and care
which obviously went into this book evoke awe and admiration. . . .
This work will be useful--perhaps even essential--to undergraduates
writing papers in the area of knighthood and chivalry, as well as
to historians wishing to confirm what they should already know. The
Dictionary is particularly strong in matters military and heraldic.
It is also fun for the browser; anyone who claims to have learned
nothing from it is either the author or a liar.?-Albion
?This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices
and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well
beyond more general works. . . . {I}ts usefulness in the areas of
history, literature, and the arts can justify its purchase by any
library with patrons whose interests are set in the medieval
period.?-RQ
"Most historians find a work such as this valuable, but could not
have compiled it themselves; the fifteen years of research which
produced this book would have reduced most of us to babbling,
drooling, burnt-out cases, if not to catatonia. The effort and care
which obviously went into this book evoke awe and admiration. . . .
This work will be useful--perhaps even essential--to undergraduates
writing papers in the area of knighthood and chivalry, as well as
to historians wishing to confirm what they should already know. The
Dictionary is particularly strong in matters military and heraldic.
It is also fun for the browser; anyone who claims to have learned
nothing from it is either the author or a liar."-Albion
"This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices
and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well
beyond more general works. . . . {I}ts usefulness in the areas of
history, literature, and the arts can justify its purchase by any
library with patrons whose interests are set in the medieval
period."-RQ
"Broughton, who in previous works has served as both editor and
translator, brings to this volume an extensive background of
research and publication in medieval literature. This dictionary,
15 years in the making, is the first of a two-volume set. Whereas
the second volume will focus on persons, places, and events, this
one is primarily concerned with concepts and terms.' However, some
persons and places are explained when necessary for understanding
of the concepts and terms. Definitions are arranged alphabetically,
and most entries contain cross-references to other entries. There
are two appendixes, the first a listing of feast days and saint's
days, the second providing topical access to entries, to help the
reader identify the entries that relate to topics such as heraldry,
castles, and weapons. An extensive bibliography and a lengthy index
complete the work."-Choice
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